Which software tools to analyze results, for students, researchers, clinicians and others!

1. Which software tools to analyze results, for students, researchers, clinicians and others! Pr G. Noël University Radiation Department (URD) Strasbourg

2. Conflicts of interest I have no conflict of interest except my interest about science and life

3. introduction

4. Aim • How to work and analyze alone without help • In other words, you are alone, abandoned in Siberia during Winter ! And you want to publish

5. Why to analyze? • Because you are the best but nobody knows it…yet ! • Because you want to compare your results to those of other teams • Because critical of reviewers help you to be better • Because it is the future of our job • Because patientswant to know what are our results • To obtain grant (ex. NASA) Analysing is a philosophy of humility

6. What to analyze? • Your experiences • Your new treatment, methods, experiments… • But according to international rules, schedules and laws!

7. How to analyze? • According to national and international standart • With knowledge of the background of the disease, techniques, methods, etc… • A strict and precise methodology ! • With the shortest time as possible? • As repeatable as possible

8. Delay between idea and analyse/publication • Idea : 30 seconds • Background : 1 to 3 months • Data : 1-6 months • Statistics : • Department 1 to 12 months • Alone : one night • Writing 1 – 3 months • Review : 3 months • Correction : 1 months • Agreement : 24 hours • Total 6 to 12 months

9. Why using tools? • Because these tools can lead earning time • Because everybody in the world use them and using them allow you to be in the same world • Physicians can regularly update their results for congress, new publication, policy of their hospital, clinic • To compare local results independently

10. List of softwares • Internet and Pubmed (free) • Adobe reader (free) • Statistic software • Mathematica • Statview • Record of references • End note • Reference manager • Paint (free with all computer) • Word or equivalent (free) • Excel or equivalent (free) • Power point or equivalent (free)

11. pubmed

12. PUBMED • PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. • PubMedalso provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecularbiologyresources

13. PUBMED • PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

14. Figures in pubmed • Publication from 1950 to tomorrow • Near 5000 journals • 70 linguages • 20.106 available articles

15. PUBMED • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

16. A book to help Downloadit : itis free !

17. Background • Knowing the background to : • Avoid inadequate research • To list relevant items of research or data • To begin introduction of article • To discuss own results

18. Researches • Two mains methods • Key-words • Authorsresearch

19. Key-wordsResearch • Clear • Not too large

20. Key-wordsResearch • Shorten the research

21. Key-wordsResearch • limit research

22. Key-wordsResearch • Containresearch

23. Authorsresearch • Because you want to do a specific personnal list of publication • Because you want to verify the ability of writing of a future colleague • Because the author is the reference !

24. Authorsresearch • Too large ? yes yes yes yes yes Probably not

25. Authorsresearch • restricted? yes yes But one article disappears yes yes yes yes

26. What we can obtain with pubmed Minimum : abstract

27. Other interesting parts Publisher to purchase or obtain free of fee Related citations = article about the sametopic

28. Obtain text of article • Different solution • Paper article • .pdf presentation • Free article • Personal subscription • Academia library • Research library • Hospital library….

29. Other interesting parts Publisher to purchase or obtain free of fee or to buy article Related citations = article about the sametopic

30. How to obtainit ? If you want to buy it but expensive, subscription…

31. Free articles • Free articles are not necessary bad! • It is a publisher policy 2 1 3

32. Select it !

33. Choosethis !

34. And more…

35. ADOBE READER

36. Obtainadopereader • http://ru.phpnuke.org/ru/download-item-view-y-b-x-x-l/T%C3%A9L%C3%A9CHARGER%2BADOBE%2BREADER%2B-%2BRUSSE%2BGRATUITEMENT.htm

37. With adobe reader • You can read .pdf • You can record in .pdf • To copy images, figures, texts…for your presentations • To obtain a lower document • To avoid illegal copy

38. And to obtain this

39. Record it ! 1 3 2

40. Another free method ! • Find the email of the author in a free article • And for a paid article, send an email to author to obtain free a .pdf copy of it

41. End NOTE

42. Aims • End Note or reference manager are software to collect and class your references • It is a simple use system • To earn time • To be systematic • To be efficient

43. Presentation

44. Whatyoucan do?

46. Select one reference

47. Read abstract

48. Open attached file

49. Obtain .pdf article

50. Insert references • By on line searching : pubmed • By manual insertion