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Systematic Reviews: The Process: Search Filters & Tools
Search Filters
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Clinical Queries in PubMedThese search strategies help find citations that correspond to a specific clinical study category.
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Search filters for Ovidlist of the strategies types by sensitivity, specificity and optimized
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Cochrane HandbookSee Part 2 section 6.4.11 - Search Filters
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InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-GroupThe ISSG is currently developing a quality checklist to assess published filters designed to retrieve records by specific study design.
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Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Search FiltersSIGN has devised strategies for running each search filter in Ovid Medline and Embase.
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Search filters to identify economic evaluationsThis report identifies a group of search filters developed and tested using a gold standard set of economic evaluations and statistical analysis. The relative performance of existing economic evaluation search filters is also examined. The report presents filters that can be applied to searches for economic evaluations in MEDLINE and EMBASE databases that can maximize sensitivity and achieve levels of precision to meet the needs of health technology assessment researchers.
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Blog: PubMed Search StrategiesThis blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies.
Search Tools
NOTE: The MeSH analyzer may no longer be available. (6-20-2013)
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PubMed MeSH Term AnalyzerUse PMIDs to review frequency of MeSH terms for a set of articles.
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PubMed2XLA Windows application that converts article lists from pubmed.gov into Microsoft Excel files.
Common strategies to limit retrieval
Common Filters
- Cochrane Filter for Humans only: NOT (animals [mh] NOT humans [mh])
- Duke modified Cochrane Strategy for randomized trials in PubMed:
(randomized controlled trial [pt] OR controlled clinical trial [pt] OR randomized[tiab] OR randomised[tiab] OR randomization[tiab] OR randomisation[tiab] OR placebo[tiab] OR drug therapy[sh] OR randomly[tiab] OR trial[tiab] OR groups[tiab]) NOT (animals[mh] NOT humans[mh]) NOT (Editorial[ptyp] OR Letter [pytp] OR Case Reports[pytp] OR Comment[pytp])
- EMBASE: limit to EMBASE records only: [embase]/lim NOT [medline]/lim
Search Filters (PubMed)
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