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Building a gold standard to construct search filters: a case study with biomarkers for oral cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: The gold standard dataset is likely to be high quality and useful for future development and evaluation of filters for OSCC studies of potential prognostic biomarkers. IMPLICATIONS: The methodology we used is generalizable to other domains requiring a reference standard to evaluate the performance of search filters. A gold standard is essential because the labels regarding relevance enable computation of diagnostic metrics, such as sensitivity and specificity. Librarians and informationists with data analysis skills could contribute to developing gold standard datasets and subsequent filters tuned for thei...
Source: Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA - January 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: J Med Libr Assoc Source Type: research