Journal article
Optimal search strategies for detecting health services research studies in MEDLINE
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evidence from health services research (HSR) is currently thinly spread through many journals, making it difficult for health services researchers, managers and policy-makers to find research on clinical practice guidelines and the appropriateness, process, outcomes, cost and economics of health care services. We undertook to develop and test search terms to retrieve from the MEDLINE database HSR articles meeting minimum quality …
Authors
Wilczynski NL; Haynes RB; Lavis JN; Ramkissoonsingh R; Arnold-Oatley AE
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 171, No. 10, pp. 1179–1185
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
November 9, 2004
DOI
10.1503/cmaj.1040512
ISSN
0820-3946