P: 10 clinical cases with 3 questions each:
I/C: 4 search engines to be tested and compared
O: help!!!
It is the outcome of the study that is so difficult to determine.
Speed is easy -
Validity & Level of evidence- likelihood of finding highest level evidence matched with validity within the first 20 hits.
Maybe we need to assess the papers using this as a new rubric - a two dimensional representation of the validity (Jahad or other validity tool) against level of evidence (http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=1025)
Maybe we should plot them on the equivalent to a ROC plot but call it a Clinical Utility Score. Or maybe someone has already done this I and I did not find it on my search engines of choice!
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