Utilisation of search filters in systematic reviews of prognosis questions

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 309-322

  Chatterley, Trish ^a   Dennett, Liz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Methodological filters; Prognosis; Search strategies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PROGNOSIS; SEARCH ENGINE;

HUMANS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84870053004     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12004     Document Type: Article

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