Publications by authors named "Gregory Kell"

Objectives: In public health, access to research literature is critical to informing decision-making and to identify knowledge gaps. However, identifying relevant research is not a straightforward task since public health interventions are often complex, can have positive and negative impacts on health inequalities and are applied in diverse and rapidly evolving settings. We developed a "living" database of public health research literature to facilitate access to this information using Natural Language Processing tools.

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Objectives: Question answering (QA) systems have the potential to improve the quality of clinical care by providing health professionals with the latest and most relevant evidence. However, QA systems have not been widely adopted. This systematic review aims to characterize current medical QA systems, assess their suitability for healthcare, and identify areas of improvement.

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Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe and pilot a novel method for continuously identifying newly published trials relevant to a systematic review, enabled by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with human expertise.

Study Design And Setting: We used RobotReviewer LIVE to keep a review of COVID-19 vaccination trials updated from February to August 2021. We compared the papers identified by the system with those found by the conventional manual process by the review team.

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Article Synopsis
  • Medical question answering (QA) systems can help doctors quickly find answers about treatments and diagnoses using the latest information.
  • Even though general QA technology is getting better, medical QA systems aren't used much in hospitals because doctors don't fully trust them yet.
  • The authors of the paper suggest important rules to improve these medical QA systems, which could make doctors more likely to use them in their work.
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