Analysis of the reporting of search strategies in Cochrane systematic reviews.

Background: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions provides instructions for documenting a systematic review's electronic database search strategy, listing elements that should be in the description. Complete documentation of the search strategy allows readers to evaluate the search when critically appraising a review's quality.

Objective: The research analyzed recently published Cochrane reviews to determine whether instructions for describing electronic database search strategies were being followed.

Information requirements of genomics researchers from the patient clinical record.

The integration of bioinformatics and clinical informatics requires the assimilation of genomic information into the clinical record, as well as an understanding of the information needs of genomics researchers. This paper focuses on a methodology to make this information requirements determination and capture an initial set of requirements for future information systems development.