List of ICD-10 codes: Information From Answers.com

ICD-10 codes: a listing

Anyone interested in health outcomes will find the following website invaluable in terms of what they have achieved. In a simple web based format, they have archived the ICD-10 codes with appropriate listing. Wish someone had listed the clinical modifications as well.

List of ICD-10 codes: Information From Answers.com

pdf text table conversion free - Google Search

Pdf to text table converter programs

Ondine (ove@berkeley.edu) asked this evening if I knew some online or other tools to convert pdf tables to text files. A quick googling led me to several good software. Some free, others were not, kind of shareware. Here are the results of the google search.

pdf text table conversion free - Google Search

There are programs of course, for converting text files to PDF. I use latex and that come bundled with macros for doing it. Openoffice, available at http://www.openoffice.org is the other one. You can save all your office files as PDFs.

How to create RSS feeds from pubmed search

Introduction

RSS stands for really simple syndication. What this means is, you can get updated contents of websites into a reader (called a feed reader), and read the contents as you wish. The contents will be readily updated and be delivered to your feed reader. Practically, then, if you searched Pubmed for your research topic, you could then have a list of your updated topics every day or every week with least effort. You do not need to retype your search algorithm; set up the search algorithm once and you get the feeds every week, updated and you see new articles get added to your search terms. Also, if you read your feeds with a feed reader, you do not clog your mail boxes.

Methods

What will you require

1. An RSS reader. You can download RSSReader from any of the following site:

http://www.rssreader.com
Download and Install the Rss reader on your computer

2. An Internet connection to access pubmed and a browser
(If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, then you do not need an RSS reader.)

How to do it
For pubmed

1. Go to Pubmed (http://www.pubmed.com),
2. Type your search term in the search box and then,
3. In the selection box, select "send to rss feed" option
4. In the next page, click on the "create feed" button
5. Click the button that says, "XML" (orange color):
6. Click the XML button -- this will open a new window
7. Copy the URL (the website address that you see on the top of your browser)

For RSS READER

8. Fire up the RSS Reader
9. Click the "Add" button on the RSS reader
10. The website URL will be automatically entered. If not, paste the URL
11. Enjoy the feeds from the site.
12. When you need updates, click "Get" and it will get the headlines for you.

Discussion

This was the simplest way to set up RSS for your pubmed search. There are several other ways as well. If you do not want to install a new software or do not know how to do that, use the Google's reader service (for this you have to create an account at Google) at http://reader.google.com
Finally, I hope to write a script that will take your queries on pubmed and will get you emails every week on the updates. But that's not coming any sooner.

References

Will be added later.