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Creating an Indexing Scheme for Case Series Articles

2025-12-29 health informatics Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesCase reports and case series comprise a significant portion of the biomedical literature, yet unlike case reports, the National Library of Medicine does not index case series as a Publication Type. This hurts clinicians and researchers ability to retrieve, identify and analyze evidence from this type of study. Materials and MethodsPubMed articles mentioning "case series" in title or abstract were characterized to learn what are considered to be case series by the authors themselves. W...

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