Development and use of a content search strategy for retrieving studies on patients' views and preferences

BackgroundIdentifying scientific literature addressing patients’ views and preferences is complex due to the wide range of studies that can be informative and the poor indexing of this evidence. Given the lack of guidance we developed a search strategy to retrieve this type of evidence.MethodsWe assembled an initial list of terms from several sources, including the revision of the terms and indexing of topic-related studies and, methods …