Evaluating a federated medical search engine: tailoring the methodology and reporting the evaluation outcomes.
Federated medical search engines are health information systems that provide a single access point to different types of information. Their efficiency as clinical decision support tools has been demonstrated through numerous evaluations. Despite their rigor, very few of these studies report holistic evaluations of medical search engines and even fewer base their evaluations on existing evaluation frameworks.
Author(s): Saparova, D, Belden, J, Williams, J, Richardson, B, Schuster, K
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2014-03-RA-0021