Development of a search filter for identifying studies completed in primary care

Family Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 739-745

  Gill, Peter J ^a,b   Roberts, Nia W ^c   Wang, Kay Yee ^b   Heneghan, Carl ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General practice; Information storage and retrieval; Medical subject headings; MEDLINE; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GOLD STANDARD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEARCH FILTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; STANDARDS;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84965090263     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmu066     Document Type: Article

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