Evaluation of PubMed filters used for evidence-based searching: Validation using relative recall

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 186-193

  Hoogendam, Arjen ^a   De Vries Robbé, Pieter F ^a   Stalenhoef, Anton F H ^a   Overbeke, John P M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FILTER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBMED;

EID: 67749111707     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.3.007     Document Type: Review

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