PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: A comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Methley, Abigail M ^a   Campbell, Stephen ^a,d   Chew Graham, Carolyn ^b   McNally, Rosalind ^c   Cheraghi Sohi, Sudeh ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GREATER MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; Multiple sclerosis (MS); Qualitative; Research; Research evaluation; Systematic reviews; Users' experiences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84988603312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0579-0     Document Type: Review

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