A method for defining a journal subset for a clinical discipline using the bibliographies of systematic reviews.

BACKGROUND: Searching for best evidence for clinical decisions in large biomedical databases is problematic because advances in health care practice that are ready for application are but a very dilute constituent in a much larger pool of biomedical literature. Sensitive search strategies have been developed to help alleviate this problem but search precision is still generally low. If "virtual journal subsets" that are likely to include all …