Searches for randomized controlled trials of drugs in MEDLINE and EMBASE using only generic drug names compared with searches applied in current practice in systematic reviews

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 188-194

  Waffenschmidt, Siw ^a   Guddat, Charlotte ^a  

^a Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehensive literature search for SRs; Generic drug name; Information storage and retrieval; Randomized controlled trials as topic; Review literature as topic; Search strategy

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATA MINING; DRUG LABELING; DRUG SCREENING; LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA MINING; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUGS, GENERIC; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84938685632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1138     Document Type: Article

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