Adverse effects
A systematic review of adverse effects filters can be found below the table
| Database | Filter |
|---|---|
| CDSR | Golder S, McIntosh HM, Loke Y. Identifying systematic reviews of the adverse effects of health care interventions . BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006;6:22. NOTE: this paper was presented earlier: Golder S, McIntosh H, Glanville J. Searching for systematic reviews of adverse effects [abstract]. XIII Cochrane Colloquium; 2005 Oct 22-26; Melbourne, Australia: 61. |
| DARE | Golder S, McIntosh HM, Loke Y. Identifying systematic reviews of the adverse effects of health care interventions . BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006;6:22. NOTE: this paper was presented earlier: Golder S, McIntosh H, Glanville J. Searching for systematic reviews of adverse effects [abstract]. XIII Cochrane Colloquium; 2005 Oct 22-26; Melbourne, Australia: 61. |
| EMBASE | Golder S, McIntosh HM, Duffy S, Glanville J, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, UK Cochrane Centre Search Filters Design Group. Developing efficient search strategies to identify reports of adverse effects in MEDLINE and EMBASE. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2006;23(1):3-12. Search filter appraisal in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2006;1(3):60-2.Derry S, Loke YK, Aronson JK. Incomplete evidence: the inadeqacy of databases in tracing published adverse drug reactions in clinical trials. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2001;1(7). Loke YK, Edwards J, Derry S. Conventional search strategies cannot easily identify those trials of drug therapy which provide quantitative adverse effects data [poster]. 7th Cochrane Colloquium; 1999 October; Rome, Italy. BMJ Clinical Evidence strategy [undated] [Ovid] |
| MEDLINE | Golder S, McIntosh HM, Duffy S, Glanville J, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, UK Cochrane Centre Search Filters Design Group. Developing efficient search strategies to identify reports of adverse effects in MEDLINE and EMBASE. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2006;23(1):3-12. Wieland S, Dickersin K. Selective exposure reporting and Medline indexing limited the search sensitivity for observational studies of the adverse effects of oral contraceptives. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005;58(6):560-7. Derry S, Loke YK, Aronson JK. Incomplete evidence: the inadeqacy of databases in tracing published adverse drug reactions in clinical trials. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2001;1(7). Loke YK, Edwards J, Derry S. Conventional search strategies cannot easily identify those trials of drug therapy which provide quantitative adverse effects data [poster]. 7th Cochrane Colloquium; 1999 October; Rome, Italy. BMJ Clinical Evidence strategy [undated] [Ovid] |
| General | Golder S, Glanville J, McIntosh H, Miles J, Duffy S. Designing a search filter to identify papers reporting adverse events [abstract]. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi); 2004 May 30 - June 2; Krakow, Poland. Golder S, McIntosh H, Glanville J. Developing optimal search strategies to identify papers on adverse events [abstract]. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi); 2004 May 30 - June 2; Krakow, Poland. |
Research in progress
The Cochrane Collaboration are developing methods in this area.
MEDLINE/EMBASE [Ovid]
Su Golder, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, is undertaking a comparative assessment of the performance of published tests and is producing a search filter for MEDLINE and EMBASE from gold standard set of records using the methods of White et al (2001)
Golder S. Search strategies to identify information on adverse effects: a systematic review. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2009 April; 97(2): 84-92.