KART, a knowledge authoring and refinement tool for clinical guidelines development

Methods We develop a web application, embedding a questionanswering (QA) module based on EAGLi (Engine for Question-Answering in Genomics Literature), which has been specifically tuned for antibiotherapy. The users ask questions (i.e. what antibiotic is used to treat cystitis caused by E. coli?) to which the system answers by retrieving a set of MEDLINE records from which the most frequently associated antibiotics are extracted and returned in a relevance-ranked list. The users can then access the annotated abstracts of the publications supporting the antibiotic as being a potential treatment, thus allowing them to use their expert judgment to accept or reject the assumption.