Prospective comparison of search strategies for systematic reviews: an objective approach yielded higher sensitivity than a conceptual one

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2016, Pages 118-124

  Hausner, Elke ^a   Guddat, Charlotte ^a   Hermanns, Tatjana ^a   Lampert, Ulrike ^a   Waffenschmidt, Siw ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining; Information storage and retrieval; Medline; Prospective studies; Reproducibility of results; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); SYSTEMIC THERAPY; LITERATURE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84977496448     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.05.002     Document Type: Article

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