CZ:Charter drafting committee/Position statements/Robert Badgett
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- Teaching information retrieval and meta-analysis in the Cochrane Collaboration
- Chairing the committee that developed and oversaw the first two years of peer review of UpToDate. (1999-2001)
- Web development for the Annals of Internal Medicine (2001-2008)
- Web development for the Journal of the American Medical Association (2008 - present)
- Developer and maintainer of the federated medical search engine SUMSearch (1998 - present)
- I teach evidence base medicine to senior medical students by having them write evidence-based edits (details). I have tried Eduzendium for this project, but was not successful and so all students used wikipedia.
- I have developed a biomedical citation formatter for wikis.
- MEDLINE is 16 million articles with over a half million added per year
- One-third of even the highest impact research studies have results that are eventually attenuated or refuted (Ioannidis, 2005)
- Conflict of interest and other challenging, disruptive forces are very prevalent
- Funding
- Increase number of authors
- Making writing easier to do. Eventually a wysiwyg edit interface is needed.
- Improve the approvals process by hybridizing the draft system with trust metrics. An example of trust methods is at wikigenes (details).
- Improve the use of templates and bots to reduce work required by humans.