[PDF] Top 20 Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound prognostic studies in MEDLINE: an analytic survey

... for studies of prognosis, causation, diagnosis, treatment, economics, clinical prediction guides, reviews, costs, and of a qualitative ...the search terms tested are 'disease attributes', 'disease onset', ... See full document

... causation search strategies in EMBASE with a manual review ("gold standard") of each article for each issue of 55 journals in ...previous strategies developed for MEDLINE in 1991, the ... See full document

... when search- ing with the methodologic search filters alone we found that precision was generally low and therefore of ...methodologic search strategies with content specific terms using the ... See full document

... intervention studies have been carried out among aging migrants in Europe to date, general lessons can be teased out based on the knowledge re- lated to principles for public health interventions for ethnic ... See full document

... A MEDLINE literature search MEDLINE (2000-July 2017) was performed using the search terms MELT enuresis, MELT desmopressin, sublingual desmopressin, lyophilisate ...17 studies ... See full document

... confidence intervals, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, like- lihood ratios, pre-and post-test probabilities; all of these datasets are useful for estimating diagnostic accuracy and are ... See full document

... This narrative review has identified a number of studies that evaluated community pharmacy–delivered alcohol SBI services. Overall consumer attitudes toward community pharmacy alcohol SBI was positive, although ... See full document

... tested search stra- tegies support the identification of literature in an effective and efficient manner [1,15], and are used in searches conducted in the production of systematic reviews and in the creation of ... See full document

... observational studies(6, ...of studies reporting access site related limb dysfunction are limited to TRA and have not included any TFA patients to provide a comparison between the two access ... See full document

... A literature search was performed on the MEDLINE, EBSCO, and CINHAL for studies published from January 1 st 2000, until 13 th May, 2015. The search strategy used the following keyword[r] ... See full document

... Sensor akan digunakan bagi membolehkan robot bergerak mengikut arah yang dikehendaki yang mana sensor akan memberi isyarat kepada Mikro-Pengawal mengenai arah pergerakan terkini robot.. [r] ... See full document

... will search PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Scopus, Web of Science, WHOLIS, Africa Wide, and CINAHL for eligible studies from 1998, with no language ...included studies for ... See full document

... ferent studies to E-S enables comparisons to be made between ...the studies; (b) important information necessary for pooling studies (such as variance estimates) was missing in many studies; ... See full document

... The stem cell regenerative therapy made a statistically significant difference to the periodontal tissue regeneration when compared to the control groups. Such therapy seemed to make the biggest influence to the ... See full document

... A final score for each factor was derived by averaging the responses from the three questions noted above (a + b + c/3). Results were reviewed by panelists and discussed among the core group of panelists via ... See full document

... 19 studies [10,34,72-88] conducted in the area of skin diseases, of which 15 eval- uated an adult population (Additional file 6, Table S6- Utilities derived for skin ...Two studies evaluated the utility ... See full document

... the studies could not be explained, since very dilute mixtures were ...further studies on this technique could be identified in the literature, thus limiting the clinical applicability of this ... See full document

... electronic search of MEDLINE (1950–2016), EMBASE (1980–2016), and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) will be conducted by a medical librar- ...The MEDLINE search will be ... See full document

... included studies are shown in Tables 1 and ...All studies were published journal ...Both studies employing IET in this review used a sustained handgrip contraction around a dynamometer as their ... See full document

... eight studies included in this SR reported some conflict of interest with pharmaceutical ...the studies were not totally favorable towards GLA over NPH insulin, although they recorded domains that ... See full document