Development of a search filter to identify reports of controlled clinical trials within CINAHL Plus

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 73-90

  Glanville, Julie ^a   Dooley, Gordon ^b   Wisniewski, Susi ^c   Foxlee, Ruth ^d   Noel Storr, Anna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Metaxis Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Cochrane Editorial Unit ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CINAHL; database searching; precision; randomised controlled trials (RCT); recall; search strategies

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 85061272680     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12251     Document Type: Article

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