Journal article
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