This guide will take approximately 3 minutes to complete.
In this guide you will learn:
- How to search for disease comorbidities in Intelligent Search
- How to refine your search to a specific context by using keywords
Step 0: Login
Refer to https://med.causaly.com
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Step 1: Use Intelligent search to look for disease comorbidities
To explore disease comorbidities, use the Intelligent Search on the Causaly home page (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Intelligent Search on the Causaly homepage
Begin your search by typing the name or abbreviation of a specific disease of interest in the input box and select the concept of interest (Such as 'Breast cancer'). The system will then propose a list of relevant search topics for the chosen concept. Add the keyword "comorbidity" or "comorbidities" to adjust the proposed queries. Select the “Comorbidities linked to breast cancer” option (Intelligent Search link) (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Select “Comorbidities linked to breast cancer” from the suggested search topics
TIP! To refine your results to disorders associated with a specific organ system, for example psychiatric disorders, select the relevant category under the MedDRA classification system in the filter panel on the left and deselect the broader disorders category under the UMLS filters (Intelligent Search link) (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Refine results to “psychiatric disorders” under the MedDRA classification system.
The results will now display the psychiatric disorders that are associated with the disease of interest.
Step 2: Refine your search to a specific patient cohort by using keywords
To further refine the results to a specific patient cohort, type the relevant keyword(s) on the input box (Figure 4). The system will adjust the suggested search topics and you can directly select the one that you would like to explore further.
If we were looking for disease comorbidities of breast cancer in diabetic patients, for instance, you can select the option “Comorbidities of breast cancer linked to diabetes”.
Figure 4: Explore the comorbidities of breast cancer in patients with diabetes.
To explore how Causaly constructed your search for disease comorbidities of breast cancer within a subpopulation, in this case, diabetic patients, you can open this search in the Advanced search by clicking on the "open in advanced search" button under the intelligent search bar (Figure 6).
Figure 6: Select “Open in advanced search” to refine your query.
In the Advanced Search, the keyword “diabetic” exists within the text box to define the subpopulation (Figure 7) (Advanced Search link).
Figure 7: Explore the comorbid conditions for breast cancer in diabetic patients by using keywords in Advanced Search.
TIP! By using keyword search, you can limit your results to specific age groups (e.g. adolescents OR pediatric etc), patient status (e.g. pregnancy OR lactation), animal studies (e.g. mouse OR rat OR rabbit etc) and more. For more information on how to use the free text box, click here.
You can further refine this search by using additional filters on the left of your screen. Filters include the publication type, year of publication, article section, data source, journal, and journal rank (SJR). To explore how you can best use the different filters, click here.
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