Research in Medical Informatics Class 2 Agenda 3 00 3 10 Announcements 3 10 3 25 Technical Literature Searches 3 25 3 35 Scenario Exercise 3 35 3 50 Medical Literature Searches Announcements Google Group Laptops Friday Final Project Data Analysis Prototyping Interviewing Ethics IRB Ubiquitous Medical Records HER PHR Information Systems Standards Emergency Response Assistive Technology Performance Support Systems Stationary Interdisc Research Ethnography Where are we Topics in Medical Informatics Synthesis Paper Techniques for MI Research Why read the literature Increase the likelihood someone will care about your work Not duplicate an already known result In early stages of research many approaches are taken After a while one approach wins out The approach becomes the paradigm people stop asking if it is the correct answer The original question is forgotten irrelevant Solution is applied to other areas A year of hard work can save a week of reading Edited from T Veldhuizen Waterloo U http kanushu uwaterloo ca tveldhui tools html Caveats when reading the literature Do not necessarily accept the prevailing wisdom unquestioningly and not search for alternative ideas answers It has already been solved next paper The writer may be crusty you are the new deal that could address this problem from a fresh prospective a certain na vet unburdened by conventional wisdom can sometimes be a positive asset Harish Chandra Cole Prize in Algebra 1954 Edited from T Veldhuizen Waterloo U http kanushu uwaterloo ca tveldhui tools html Caveats when reading the literature Balance enlightenment and ignorance to create original work Strategy 1 Brainstorm as many possible ideas methods solutions as you can 2 Evaluate each solution and flesh out the most promising 3 The brainstorming and evaluation gives you ideas for keywords to search for most searches fail because people do not know what keywords to use 4 Then do a literature search 5 Do not get discouraged Edited from T Veldhuizen Waterloo U http kanushu uwaterloo ca tveldhui tools html What is a new idea Computer science literature as of 2005 has approximately 2 000 000 publications depending on how you count Nobody has done this before are not falsifiable Unless your idea theorem approach did not exist 10 years ago you should assume the problem has been tackled and attempt to do it differently better etc Edited from T Veldhuizen Waterloo U http kanushu uwaterloo ca tveldhui tools html The key to most searches Lots of money to join associations Part of a university large library system How to access university material remotely VPN http www colorado edu its vpn CS Literature Pecking Order Hi Journal Paper Conference Paper Workshop Paper Importance Survey Papers Handbook Papers Technical Report Tutorial Lo Textbooks Where CS differs from most fields Idea Research Structure Idea Grey Literature Primary Literature Secondary Literature Tertiary Literature Research Conference Invisible College Preprints Personal Website Proceedings Journal Articles Indexes Abstracts Reviews Monographs Handbooks Encyclopedias Textbooks Edited from J Parrott Waterloo U http www lib uwaterloo ca usered grad researchskills flow of info html What to search Need to have background so you know What questions to ask What terms to search for Things to look for Key papers weights provided by Google Scholar CiteSeer E g Charting Past Present and Future Google Scholar Key researchers DBLP is good for this E g G Abowd Things to create Citation graph Backward bibliography search Forward bibliography search Ask around We would substitute CHI CSCW C C DIS DUX MobiCom Pervasive Persuasive Perva sive Healthcare UbiHealth HealthNet JAMI A here http kanushu uwaterloo ca tveldhui tools html Brainstorm Exercise Scenario Think of this scenario You have a meeting with Patty Brennan Ph D a nurse researcher at the University of Wisconsin Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering What can you find out about her Where did you find it What are her research interests What papers has she published recently Where did she publish those papers Difficult part about medical informatics research Medical researchers most likely do not post their publications on their websites Medical researchers may not have a website They publish in different venues Medical Literature Pecking Order Journal Paper Hi Importance Topic Books Workshop Paper Conference Paper Survey Papers Handbook Papers Technical Report Lo Tutorial Textbooks How to solve this problem Google them standard answer Do they have a personal website Are they associated with a group university etc Is there a publication site associated with that group Find out what their interests are Identify papers that may be of interest to you and get the papers Full reference If not google to find full reference Google the paper someone may have it out there for free probably not Go to the library http libraries colorado edu Select Find E Journals Use reference to find paper pdf papers are the best Alternative sites that help PubMed National Library of Medicine Site http www ncbi nlm nih gov entrez query fcgi db PubMed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association http www jamia org BioInfoBank Library http lib bioinfo pl Help The library does not have the journal book etc Get the complete reference Go to the Interlibrary Loan Site http ucblibraries colorado edu ill expanding htm Wait 2 days 8 weeks depends on request E g Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health Kay H Connelly Anne M Faber Yvonne Rogers Katie A Siek and Tammy Toscos In Springer e i 123 4 124 2006 ISSN 0932 383X gedruckte Version ISSN 1613 7620 elektronische Version http www ove at medien eui aktuell htm http www springer com west home springerwiennewyork computer sci ence SGWID 4 40631 70 1086776 0 Great I found the literature now what You can write a survey paper You can start a new project You can organize your references LaTeX BibTeX Word Bib2html BibDesk Blurbs come in handy here EndNote Bookends Mac takes BibTeX RIS Citeulike RefWorks http ucblibraries colorado edu how refworks htm Endnote to BibTeX http libraries mit edu help endnote endnotelatexfaq html 3 http www clib jena mpg de main endnote endnote latex en htm mp 18 BibTeX to Endnote Looking forward Week 1 Friday Bring laptops for information searches Topic Selection Due August 31 Topic Assignment Out September 1 Week 2 Pervasive Healthcare September 1 NO CLASS Labor Day Quiz September 3