Optimizing literature search in systematic reviews - are MEDLINE, EMBASE and CENTRAL enough for identifying effect studies within the area of musculoskeletal disorders?

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-11

  Aagaard, Thomas ^a,b   Lund, Hans ^b,c   Juhl, Carsten ^b,d  

^a Holbaek University Hospital   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bibliometric; Evidence based medicine; Information retrieval; Literature searching; MECIR guidelines; Musculoskeletal area; Relative recall; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84997336166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0264-6     Document Type: Article

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