Citation searches are more sensitive than keyword searches to identify studies using specific measurement instruments

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 412-417

  Linder, Suzanne K ^a   Kamath, Geetanjali R ^b   Pratt, Gregory F ^b   Saraykar, Smita S ^b   Volk, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sources; Instruments; Meta analyses; Methodology; Search methods; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CASE STUDY; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROL PREFERENCES SCALE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FULL TEXT DATABASE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCOPUS; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; WEB OF SCIENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNET; PROCEDURES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PUBMED;

EID: 84925307843     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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