Specialised tools are needed when searching the web for rare disease diagnoses
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Specialized tools are needed when searching the web for rare disease diagnoses
In our recent paper, we study web search as an aid in the process of diagnosing rare diseases. To answer the question of how well Google Search and PubMed perform, we created an evaluation framework with 56 diagnostic cases and made our own specialized search engine, FindZebra (findzebra.com). FindZebra uses a set of publicly available curated sources on rare diseases and an open-source informa...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017