Can electronic search engines optimize screening of search results in systematic reviews: An empirical study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sampson, Margaret ^a   Barrowman, Nicholas J ^a,b,c   Moher, David ^a,b   Clifford, Tammy J ^a,b,d   Platt, Robert W ^e   Morrison, Andra ^a,d   Klassen, Terry P ^f   Zhang, Li ^a,g  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONICS; EMPIRICISM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; SCREENING; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DEVICES; DOCUMENTATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; UTILIZATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; EFFICIENCY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33645020184     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-7     Document Type: Article

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