You might say that Boolean is designed for humans, so the
title of this post is a misnomer. In this post I hope to show that Boolean search
is not a magic bullet. If humans miss terms, then Boolean will miss …
The European Association for Health Information and
Libraries (EAHIL) annual meeting included a number of fascinating workshops. These
workshops were revealing perhaps for unintended reasons. What do health
librarians do? On the basis of this conference, they largely carry out
systematic …
At the EAHIL Conference in Basel today, a team from Cochrane
gave a workshop entitled “PICO Search: Unlocking the Cochrane data vault”. The
PICO principles are a four-fold way of interpreting a clinical trial:
