Locating sex-specific evidence on clinical questions in MEDLINE: A search filter for use on OvidSP™

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Moerman, Clara J ^a   Deurenberg, Rikie ^b   Haafkens, Joke A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER IDENTITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; OVIDSP; RECALL; SEARCH ENGINE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; STATISTICS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTHMA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 65549142234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-25     Document Type: Article

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