This guide will take approximately 3 minutes to complete.
In this guide you will learn:
- How to search for treatments of a disease of interest
- How to refine your search to a specific context, such as a patient cohort
Step 0: Login
Refer to https://med.causaly.com
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Step 1: Look for treatments for the disease of interest
To explore treatments of a specific disease, use Causaly Discover in the Causaly home page (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Causaly Discover on the Causaly homepage
Begin your search by typing your question into the Causaly Discover search bar in natural language. "What are the treatments of hypertensive disease?” will be used as an example (link) (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Directly ask a question in natural language in the Causaly Discover search bar
Click "Search" or hit Enter on your keyboard to run the search, which will direct you to the Causaly Discover results page.
Causaly Discover offers an AI-generated summary, complete with in-line citations for transparency into the results, based on the top 20 articles. You can scroll down to view all the documents retrieved in response to your search query.
In addition, Causaly Discover will prompt you to visit the Bio Graph to review the treatments in a dendrogram list and be able to deep dive into their unique relationships with the disease of interest. Click on View analysis to open the Causaly Bio Graph knowledge card (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Causaly Bio Graph card linking your search query to Causaly dendrogram results .
TIPS!
- If you are used to working with keywords on Intelligent Search and/or would like to review the results directly in the Causaly Biograph, you can select the option to return to your previous Causaly experience and initiate your search there by clicking the “Intelligent Search” option under “Biograph” on top of your Causaly homepage (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Access the previous Causaly interface, by clicking on Biograph and selecting the “Intelligent Search” option. - In the dendrogram view, examine the filters that Causaly added by default for treatments. You can change the filters, based on what you consider as a treatment. For example, you can deselect the “therapeutic procedure” and/or select “health care activity” under the Procedures category.
- The ATC classification system is preselected in the filter panel. This selection will categorize the different drugs according to the organ system upon which each drug acts. To increase the sensitivity of your results, you can deselect all filters and select a specific ATC category. For example, you can search for cardiovascular system drugs that treat hypertensive disease (link) (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Refine results to “Cardiovascular system drugs” under the ATC classification system.
Step 2: Refine your search to a specific context by using keywords
To further refine the results to a specific context, such as a contaminant therapy or a patient cohort, ask a follow up question in the search field at the bottom right corner of your screen, below the Causaly Biograph card (Figure 6).
Figure 6: The search field at the bottom right corner of your screen to ask follow up questions.
By typing “in diabetic patients”, as an example, the search results will now show “Treatments of hypertensive disease in diabetic patients”.
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