Diagnostic test systematic reviews: Bibliographic search filters ("Clinical Queries") for diagnostic accuracy studies perform well

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 974-981

  Kastner, Monika ^a,b   Wilczynski, Nancy L ^a   McKibbon, Ann K ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,c   Haynes, R Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Databases, bibliographic; Diagnosis; Information retrieval; Medical informatics; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMBASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 67650866692     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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