Locating qualitative studies in dementia on MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO: A comparison of search strategies

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 579-586

  Rogers, Morwenna ^a   Bethel, Alison ^a   Abbott, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 85035196032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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