Journal article
Sensitive Clinical Queries retrieved relevant systematic reviews as well as primary studies: an analytic survey
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine how well the previously validated broad and narrow Clinical Queries for treatment, diagnosis, prognosis, and etiology studies, retrieve not only primary studies but also relevant systematic reviews.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Using the Clinical Hedges Database housed at McMaster University, we tested the retrieval performance of the Clinical Queries.
Authors
Wilczynski NL; McKibbon KA; Haynes RB
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 64, No. 12, pp. 1341–1349
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.007
ISSN
0895-4356