Posts Tagged ‘medical literature’

Crowdsourcing to to Tame the Medical Literature?

July 8, 2014 — Medical literature is growing beyond the grasp of individuals trying to comprehend its breadth. PubMed now holds more than 23 million records. Crowdsourcing may be a necessary way of coping. Andrew Brown and David Allison offer up some evidence in a new PLOS ONE publication that it can work. Using Amazon’s MTurk service, they doled out four groups […]