Surveillance search techniques identified the need to update systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 755-762

  Sampson, Margaret ^a,b   Shojania, Kaveh G ^c,d   McGowan, Jessie ^b,d   Daniel, Raymond ^a   Rader, Tamara ^d   Iansavichene, Alla E ^a,e   Ji, Jun ^c   Ansari, Mohammed T ^a   Moher, David ^a,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Information storage and retrieval; MEDLINE; Pubmed related article; Surveillance search strategies; Updating Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCREENING TEST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 45849103155     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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