Optimal CINAHL search strategies for identifying therapy studies and review articles: Health policy and systems

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-199

  Wong, Sharon S L ^a   Wilczynski, Nancy L ^b   Haynes, R Brian ^b,c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CINAHL database; Computerized literature search; Information retrieval; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 33646745148     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00100.x     Document Type: Review

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