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Diagnostic test systematic reviews: Bibliographic search filters (“Clinical Queries”) for diagnostic accuracy studies perform well

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews of health care topics are valuable summaries of all pertinent studies on focused questions. However, finding all relevant primary studies for systematic reviews remains challenging. OBJECTIVES: To determine the performance of the Clinical Queries sensitive search filter for diagnostic accuracy studies for retrieving studies for systematic reviews.

Authors

Kastner M; Wilczynski NL; McKibbon AK; Garg AX; Haynes RB

Journal

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 62, No. 9, pp. 974–981

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

9 2009

DOI

10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.11.006

ISSN

0895-4356