Inclusion of methodological filters in searches for diagnostic test accuracy studies misses relevant studies

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 602-607

  Whiting, Penny ^a   Westwood, Marie ^b   Beynon, Rebecca ^a   Burke, Margaret ^a   Sterne, Jonathan Ac ^a   Glanville, Julie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KLEIJNEN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Diagnostic test accuracy studies; Literature searching; MEDLINE; Methodological filters; Sensitivity; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; FETAL FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECAL OCCULT BLOOD TESTING; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 79954999124     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.07.006     Document Type: Review

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