Comparison of the efficacy of three PubMed search filters in finding randomized controlled trials to answer clinical questions

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 723-726

  Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^a   Irani, Shirin ^a   Mortaz Hedjri, Soroush ^b   Shakiba, Behnam ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

clinical trials; precision; PubMed; recall; search filters

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECALL; SEARCH ENGINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

CLINICAL TRIALS; PRECISION; PUBMED; RECALL; SEARCH FILTERS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEARCH ENGINE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84885002798     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01554.x     Document Type: Article

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