Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070226167
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The publication discloses a one-stop search and download site that allows access to multiple Critically Acclaimed Topics (CAT) libraries. A physician can use this to do a keyword search and locate releveant articles which may help the physician to provide evidence-based medicine. A Web-based application: "the CAT Crawler" recieves keywords entered by the physician and provides adequate access to available appraised topics on the Internet. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.informaworld.com/smp... |
| Author/Creator | Dong, P. ; Mondry, A. |
| Title | Enhanced quality and quantity of retrieval of critically appraised topics using the CAT crawler |
| Publication Date | March 1, 2004 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, UK |
| Directions to Document Location | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/432725911-74079882/content~content=a713825716~db=all~order=page |
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Excerpt
Excerpt "As healthcare moves towards the implementation of evidence-based medicine (EBM), critically appraised topics (CATs) become useful in helping physicians to make clinical decisions. A number of academic and healthcare organizations have set up Web-based CAT libraries. The primary objective of the presented work is to provide a one-stop search and download site that allows access to multiple CAT libraries. A Web-based application, namely the CAT Crawler, was developed to serve physicians with an adequate access to available appraised topics on the Internet. Important information is extracted automatically and regularly from CAT Websites, and consolidated by checking the uniqueness and availability. The principle of meta-search is incorporated into the implementation of the search engine, which finds relevant topics following keyword input." (Abstract) |
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Claims
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A system for clinical decision support, the system including:
a crawler agent component,
wherein the crawler agent component is adapted to receive a search parameter, wherein the search parameter specifies a criteria for evidence data to be searched for, and
wherein the crawler agent component is adapted to initiate a search of a plurality of evidence sources based at least in part on the search parameter, wherein the search identifies the evidence data, wherein the evidence data is utilized by the clinical decision support system to provide decision support to a healthcare provider for a patient.
Relevance
Similar to the idea disclosed in the first clause of this claim, the mentioned prior art teaches, a healthcare system in which a crawler-agent receives keywords (search parameters) for searching.
Additionally, similar to the idea disclosed in the second clause of this claim, the mentioned prior art also teaches that, based on the keywords entered, the crawler-agent searches a number of libraries to retrieve literatures. These literatures are then used by a physician to implement evidence-based medicine.
In light of this prior art, the first independent claim of the patent publication may not satisfy the obviousness criteria.
Similar to the idea disclosed in the first clause of this claim, the mentioned prior art teaches, a healthcare system in which a crawler-agent receives keywords (search parameters) for searching.
Additionally, similar to the idea disclosed in the second clause of this claim, the mentioned prior art also teaches that, based on the keywords entered, the crawler-agent searches a number of libraries to retrieve literatures. These literatures are then used by a physician to implement evidence-based medicine.
In light of this prior art, the first independent claim of the patent publication may not satisfy the obviousness criteria.
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