This guide will take approximately 3 minutes to complete.
In this guide you will learn:
- How to search for treatments 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 treatments
To explore treatments of a specific disease, 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 disease in the input box and select the Concept of interest. The system will then propose a list of relevant search topics for the chosen concept. Select the treatments option to look for the available treatments for the disease of interest, such as hypertensive disease (Intelligent Search link) (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Select “Treatments of hypertensive disease” from the suggested search topics
Results will be displayed in an interactive dendrogram view. Before exploring the dendrogram, examine the preselected filters on the left of your screen that Causaly has included by default to display as treatments.
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- By default, the system will include the downregulate and unidirectional arrows under the “Relationship Type” filter. To investigate what the different arrows mean in Causaly, you can visit this guide.
- 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 (Intelligent Search link) (Figure 3).
Figure 3: 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 comorbidity, type in the Intelligent Search input box the disease of interest (such as 'obese'), as well as the keyword "treatment" to adjust the suggested search topics (Figure 4) (Intelligent Search link).
Figure 4: Explore the treatments for hypertensive disease in obese patients by using additional keywords in the Intelligent Search bar.
Click search to view the results. The system will scan for the keyword(s) of interest, in this case ‘obese’, in the article title, abstract, and MeSH headings and then extract the relevant relationships from this corpus only.
TIP! By using keyword search, you can limit your results to specific formulations (e.g. oral OR intravenous), animal studies (e.g. mouse OR rat OR rabbit etc) and more.
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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