Therapy studies
Evaluations of the performance of filters can be found below the table
| Database | Filter | CINAHL | Wong SS, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Optimal CINAHL search strategies for identifying therapy studies and review articles. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2006;38(2):194-9. |
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| EMBASE | Wong SS, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound treatment studies in EMBASE. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2006;94(1):41-7. And also at http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_Hedges_EMBASE_Strategies.aspx |
| MEDLINE | Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, WalterSD, Werre SR; Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of treatment from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ 2005;330(7501):1179. [Ovid] And also at http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_Hedges_MEDLINE_Strategies.aspx |
| PsycINFO | Eady AM, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. PsycINFO search strategies identified methodologically sound therapy studies and review articles for use by clinicians and researchers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2008;61(1):34-40. [Ovid]. And also at http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_Hedges_PsycINFO_Strategies.aspx |
Evaluations of the performance of filters to identify therapy studies
Lokker C, Haynes RB, Wilczynski NL, McKibbon KA, Walter SD. Retrieval of diagnostic and treatment studies for clinical use through PubMed and PubMed's Clinical Queries filters. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2011;18(5):652-9. Epub 2011 Jun 15.
Hoogendam A, de Vries Robbé P F, Stalenhoef A F H, Overbeke J P M. Evaluation of PubMed filters used for evidence-based searching: validation using relative recall. Journal of the Medical Library Association . 2009 July; 97(3): 186-193. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.3.007.