Medical Research Retrieval Engine

An apparatus for retrieving relevant documents having medical research evidence, the apparatus comprising:

• a request interface, executed by a processor on a computer, configured to receive a request to access a plurality of documents in a database stored in a memory device, each of the plurality of documents containing information relating to medical research evidence, each document having an associated relational expression;
• a display module, executed by the processor on the computer and operatively coupled with the request interface, the display module causing display of a user interface with a plurality of fields, a set of the fields being selectable prescribed terms;
• an expression interface, executed by a server and configured to receive a received relational expression based on information received from the user interface, the received relational expression including at least one of the selectable prescribed terms in the user interface;
• a comparator, executed by the server and operatively coupled with the expression interface, the comparator being configured to compare the received relational expression with the relational expressions associated with at least one of the plurality of documents;
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• a display module, executed by the processor on the computer and operatively coupled with the comparator, the display module being configured to cause display of information relating to a set of documents in the database as a function of the comparison of relational expressions.

A computer program product including a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer code thereon for retrieving relevant documents having medical research evidence, the computer program product comprising:

• program code for receiving a request to access a plurality of documents in a database stored in a memory device, each of the plurality of documents containing information relating to medical research evidence, each document having an associated relational expression;
• program code for causing display of a user interface with a plurality of fields, a set of the fields being selectable prescribed terms;
• program code for receiving a received relational expression based on information received from the user interface, the received relational expression including a term related to at least one of the selectable prescribed terms in the user interface;
• program code for comparing the received relational expression with the relational expressions associated with at least one of the plurality of documents;
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• program code for causing display of information relating to a set of documents in the database as a function of the comparison of relational expressions.