PubMed's current search interface makes it tedious to systematically search for medical and research literature on drugs that could potentially be used to treat a given pathology, including patients with genetically altered tumors. This is because physicians must search separately for each drug-pathology combination (or drug-gene combination). To streamline this process, this paper proposes adding a faceted search interface to PubMed. Faceted search is a common feature on e-commerce websites that allows users to filter search results by selecting different fields. By incorporating this technology, not only can physicians save time and improve the accuracy of their literature searches, but also presenting search results in this way makes patterns emerge, which can suggest new treatment options for a given pathology (including patients with genetically altered tumors).

翻译：PubMed当前的检索界面使得系统性地搜索关于可能用于治疗特定病理（包括基因突变肿瘤患者）的药物的医学与研究文献变得繁琐。这是因为医生必须针对每种药物-病理组合（或药物-基因组合）分别进行检索。为优化这一流程，本文提出在PubMed中增加分面检索界面。分面检索是电子商务网站的常见功能，允许用户通过选择不同字段来筛选检索结果。通过引入该技术，医生不仅能节省时间并提高文献检索的准确性，以此方式呈现检索结果还能使潜在规律得以显现，从而为特定病理（包括基因突变肿瘤患者）提示新的治疗方案。