Analysis of queries to a Swedish drug information centre identifies scientific knowledge gaps
Johan Nilsson, Jenny M Kindblom, Julia Izsak · 2024
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Johan Nilsson, Jenny Kindblom, and Julia Izsak mine a Swedish drug advice service's inbox in 2024 for holes in medical knowledge. Such centers back doctors with evidence-based guidance, but gaps in the literature cap how far that guidance reaches. The team read a full year of answers from one regional center, hunting phrases that admit thin evidence.
Of 209 answers, most were patient-specific and nearly all came from doctors, with side effects the top theme, they report. About twenty-three percent of answers hit a real knowledge gap, and in eighteen percent no solid advice could be given at all. Gaps clustered on side effects, long-term safety, tricky combined illnesses, and drug comparisons. Each unanswered query is a research agenda written by the clinic itself.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Johan Nilsson, Jenny M Kindblom, Julia Izsak |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |