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Information Retrieval: A Biomedical and Health Perspective

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the evaluation of operational biomedical and health information retrieval (IR) systems. It follows a framework that reviews studies that look at use of systems, uses for the system, user satisfaction, how well the system was used, factors associated with successful use of the system, and impact that the system had. The chapter finishes with a discussion of relevance judgments and their role and limitations in IR evaluation research.

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Notes

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    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline_pubmed_production_stats.html

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    https://www.ncbi.nlm. nih.gov/books/NBK3827/#pubmedhelp.Clinical_Queries_Filters

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    https://www.epistemonikos.org/

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