Triangulating evidence in health sciences with Annotated Semantic Queries.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Published Date:

Abstract

MOTIVATION: Integrating information from data sources representing different study designs has the potential to strengthen evidence in population health research. However, this concept of evidence "triangulation" presents a number of challenges for systematically identifying and integrating relevant information. These include the harmonization of heterogenous evidence with common semantic concepts and properties, as well as the priortization of the retrieved evidence for triangulation with the question of interest.

Authors

  • Yi Liu
    Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, China.
  • Tom R Gaunt
    MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS82BN, UK.