Mrs Raechel Damarell

Position/s:	Research Officer, Caresearch palliative care knowledge network Palliative and Supportive Services
Phone:	work+61 8 82012172, +61 8 72218224
Email:	raechel.damarell@flinders.edu.au
Location:	Central Library (-), RGH Health Sciences (-)
Postal address:	GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Raechel Damarell is Research Officer with Flinders Filters, a research programme investigating ways to improve the harvesting of current research from bibliographic databases such as Medline.

Qualifications

BA, Grad Dip Info Stud, AALIA

Key responsibilities

The empirical development of search filters for rapidly identifying research evidence on specific topics (e.g. lung cancer and Primary Health Care)
Quantifying search filter performance using a gold standard test comparison study design borrowed from epidemiological research
Implementing search filters within a webpage environment as one-click URLs
Translating validated search filters for application in other databases.

Teaching

Topic Lecturer:

PALL 8432 Understanding Literature for Evidence-Based Practice

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Tieman JJ, Olver I, Currow DC, Damarell R
First Phase Activities for Cancer Guidelines Searching Processes.
Set of exploratory studies funded by the Cancer Council of Australia to investigate the feasibility of an automated approach to retrieval of research literature for guideline development.

Damarell R, Tieman JJ, Olver I, Currow DC. Lung cancer search filters: Connecting to the evidence. [Poster] Clinical Oncological Society Australia, 38th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2011 Nov 15-17; Perth, Australia.

Damarell, R., Tieman, JJ Text analysis tools for information retrieval. [Workshop] 19th Cochrane Colloquium, 2011 Oct 19-22; Madrid, Spain.

Damarell, R, Tieman JJ, Lawrence, M. Managing the knowledge base for Primary Health Care: the development of a Primary Health Care search filter, PubMed topic searches, and web guidance for retrieving the primary health care literature.
Project in conjunction with Primary Health Care Research Information Service (PHC RIS).

Filter development methodologies.

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Damarell, R.A., Tieman, J., Sladek, R., & Davidson, P., 2011. Development of a heart failure filter for Medline: an objective approach using evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as an alternative to hand searching. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11.

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