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Developing Optimal Search Strategies for Detecting Clinically Sound Studies in MEDLINE

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop optimal MEDLINE search strategies for retrieving sound clinical studies of the etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disorders in adult general medicine. DESIGN: Analytic survey of operating characteristics of search strategies developed by computerized combinations of terms selected to detect studies meeting basic methodologic criteria for direct clinical use in adult general medicine.

Authors

Haynes RB; Wilczynski N; McKibbon KA; Walker CJ; Sinclair JC

Journal

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 447–458

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

November 1, 1994

DOI

10.1136/jamia.1994.95153434

ISSN

1067-5027