Testing the effectiveness of simplified search strategies for updating systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 148-153

  Rice, Maureen ^a   Ali, Muhammad Usman ^a   Fitzpatrick Lewis, Donna ^a,b   Kenny, Meghan ^a   Raina, Parminder ^a   Sherifali, Diana ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effective; Search strategy; Systematic reviews; Updating

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMPLIFIED SEARCH STRATEGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85026328383     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.06.005     Document Type: Article

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