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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature search strategies for identifying methodologically sound causation and prognosis studies

Abstract

We developed search strategies for detecting sound articles on causation and prognosis in Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) in the year 2000. An analytic survey was conducted, comparing hand searches of 75 journals with retrievals from CINAHL for 5,020 search terms and 11,784 combinations for causation and 9,946 combinations for prognosis. For detecting sound causation studies, a three-term strategy maximized …

Authors

Walker-Dilks C; Wilczynski NL; Haynes RB; Team FTH

Journal

Applied Nursing Research, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 98–103

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

5 2008

DOI

10.1016/j.apnr.2006.04.004

ISSN

0897-1897