How scite Is Helping a Doctor in Malaysia Provide Better Guidance to Expecting Mothers
Introduction
A doctor in Malaysia working with refugees and asylum seekers was faced with multiple questions and challenges from his patients daily. Some patients feel that they are not receiving proper care from doctors while others struggle with language barriers, or live too far from the clinic to visit regularly. The doctor who mainly works with patients who are pregnant aims to understand their feedback and identify the various barriers to accessing health care that patients are experiencing.
Firstly, the doctor consults his colleague whether there is a common issue among patients in rural areas and is directed to the seminal study, “Too Far to Walk: Maternal Mortality in Context.” After finding the study compelling, he wonders if there is any related work specifically in Malaysia. With over 1,500 citations on the paper, he is aware that he is unable to review all citing papers by himself. He opens the scite report for the study and even though he is able to see the articles with their citation context, he realised that reading 2,044 citation statements is still too overwhelming.
By filtering the citation statements with the keyword “Malaysia”, he quickly discovered supporting work from a recent study published in 2021.
Conclusion
With assistance from his colleague and scite, the doctor finds specific evidence that better informs his understanding and helps his patients more effectively.
This short story highlights how scite and its unique approach to citation analysis can help with information retrieval, interpretation and contextualisation, and saving the doctor’s time on his research. scite stands out due to the scale of its citation statement data and the workflows arising from this data are fresh, providing beyond traditional citations by supporting a range of workflows, from students writing essays to doctors treating patients.
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