Other filters

Other filters include filters to find populations of specific ages, geographic areas, evidence-based healthcare publications and patient safety.

Database	Filter
CENTRAL	Geographic filters Cochrane filter for low and middle income countries. [Cochrane Library]
CINAHL	Patient safety Tanon AA, Champagne F, Contandriopoulos AP, Pomey MP, Vadeboncoeur A, Nguyen H. Patient safety and systematic reviews: finding papers indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2010;19(5):452-61.
EMBASE	Geographic filters Cochrane filter for low and middle income countries. [Ovid] Patient safety Tanon AA, Champagne F, Contandriopoulos AP, Pomey MP, Vadeboncoeur A, Nguyen H. Patient safety and systematic reviews: finding papers indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2010;19(5):452-61.
MEDLINE	Age specific strategies van de Glind E M M, van Munster B C, Spijker R, Scholten R J P, Hooft L. Search filters to identify geriatric medicine in Medline. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2011. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000319 [PubMed] Kastner M, Wilczynski NL, Walker-Dilks C, McKibbon KA, Haynes B. Age-specific search strategies for Medline. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2006;8(4):e25. [Ovid] Evidence-based health care Harrison J. Designing a search strategy to identify and retrieve articles on evidence-based health care using MEDLINE. Health Libraries Review 1997;14(1):33-42. Geographic filters Pienaar E, Grobler L, Busgeeth K, Eisinga A, Siegfried N. Developing a geographic search filter to identify randomised controlled trials in Africa: finding the optimal balance between sensitivity and precision. Health Information and Libraries Journal. 2011;28(3):210-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00936.x. Cochrane filter for low and middle income countries. [Ovid/PubMed] Patient safety Tanon AA, Champagne F, Contandriopoulos AP, Pomey MP, Vadeboncoeur A, Nguyen H. Patient safety and systematic reviews: finding papers indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2010;19(5):452-61.