Improving search efficiency for systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy: An exploratory study to assess the viability of limiting to MEDLINE, EMBASE and reference checking

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Preston, Louise ^a   Carroll, Christopher ^a   Gardois, Paolo ^b   Paisley, Suzy ^a   Kaltenthaler, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test accuracy; EMBASE; Health Technology Assessment; Literature searching; MEDLINE; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CITATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; MEDLINE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MEDLINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 84933045107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0074-7     Document Type: Article

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