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Browse commonly-mentioned Populations, | Browse commonly-mentioned Populations, | ||
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The purpose of RoboPICO should be to: | The purpose of RoboPICO should be to: | ||
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- Identify the most common topics of underlying abstracts, and | - Identify the most common topics of underlying abstracts, and | ||
- Identify terms that you should add to your PICO (which you can populate to "Add a PICO Element" | - Identify terms that you should add to your PICO (which you can populate to "Add a PICO Element" | ||
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Clicking a row in the chart also initiates a strict MeSH lookup on the PICO element; not all extracted PICOs will correspond to MeSHs, but expect approximately half of lookups to succeed. In the event of a failed lookup, MeSH and Google search linkouts are offered. | Clicking a row in the chart also initiates a strict MeSH lookup on the PICO element; not all extracted PICOs will correspond to MeSHs, but expect approximately half of lookups to succeed. In the event of a failed lookup, MeSH and Google search linkouts are offered. | ||
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<WRAP center round help 90%> What are MeSH? Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are terms defined by the National Library of Medicine as a way to organize and search the content of medical literature. In some ways, MeSH are similar to Nested Knowledge tags, but unlike tags, MeSH are standardized. </ | <WRAP center round help 90%> What are MeSH? Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are terms defined by the National Library of Medicine as a way to organize and search the content of medical literature. In some ways, MeSH are similar to Nested Knowledge tags, but unlike tags, MeSH are standardized. </ | ||
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Explore topics that appear most frequently among the references. References may belong to one or more topics, or none. Clicking a topic shows references belonging to the topic. | Explore topics that appear most frequently among the references. References may belong to one or more topics, or none. Clicking a topic shows references belonging to the topic. | ||
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These topics are derived from a [[https:// | These topics are derived from a [[https:// | ||
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Explore the frequency of word combinations (n-grams) from abstracts or indexed descriptors (MeSH and/or journal keywords). While n-grams are presented in order of occurence in abstract text, descriptors are inherently unordered. Clicking a row shows unique references containing the combination. | Explore the frequency of word combinations (n-grams) from abstracts or indexed descriptors (MeSH and/or journal keywords). While n-grams are presented in order of occurence in abstract text, descriptors are inherently unordered. Clicking a row shows unique references containing the combination. | ||
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You should continue iteratively refining your query until your Abstract, RoboPICO, Topics, and/or Keywords contain mostly relevant content and minimal extraneous records or concepts. | You should continue iteratively refining your query until your Abstract, RoboPICO, Topics, and/or Keywords contain mostly relevant content and minimal extraneous records or concepts. | ||
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+ | To view the full query, expand using the dropdown arrow. You can view the results returned in PubMed by clicking on #### results. You can finalize the query (input it into your nest) by selecting Finalize and following the steps. | ||
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The reasoning behind this recommendation is that you want to capture relevant records while minimizing extra work during Screening (remember, your team will need to manually Screen all results from your Search!). You can always add new/ | The reasoning behind this recommendation is that you want to capture relevant records while minimizing extra work during Screening (remember, your team will need to manually Screen all results from your Search!). You can always add new/ | ||
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+ | After hitting Finalize, you will be taken to the Add Search modal, but pre-populated with the query you have built. Here you can edit the query, the search engine, and notes before hitting Add. This adds the search just like a regular one! | ||
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==== What comes after Search Exploration? | ==== What comes after Search Exploration? |