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Prototype of a Specific-Inquiry System in Coronary-Artery-Disease Literature

G. Douglas Talbott, MD

JAMA. 1966;196(11):964-966.

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Familiarity with current medical literature is generally agreed to be a vital factor in the growth and development of a physician; yet the vast number of current biomedical publications (5,500 in 1962, according to the director of the National Library of Medicine¹) makes the task of selecting, let alone reading, pertinent material an increasingly difficult problem. It is the purpose of this paper to describe a new automated specific-inquiry and information-retrieval system devised to help solve this problem.

The prototype system was developed, and recently tested, at Cox Coronary Heart Institute, where it is being used to extract from current periodicals (1) immediate answers to specific questions and (2) bibliographies, abstracts, and/or original papers on a given subject, all within the circumscribed area of coronary heart disease. Preliminary tests of the system were made by running a series of more than 25 duplicate searches, with both manual methods and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Cox Coronary Heart Institute, Kettering, Ohio.

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