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Search filter precision can be improved by NOTing out irrelevant content.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Abstract
backgroundMost methodologic search filters developed for use in large electronic databases such as MEDLINE have low precision. One method that has been proposed but not tested for improving precision is NOTing out irrelevant content.
objectiveTo determine if search filter precision can be improved by NOTing out the text words and index terms assigned to those articles that are retrieved but are off-target.
designAnalytic survey.
methodsNOTing out unique terms in off-target articles and testing search filter performance in the Clinical Hedges Database.
main outcome measuresSensitivity, specificity, precision and number needed to read (NNR).
resultsFor all purpose categories (diagnosis, prognosis and etiology) except treatment and for all databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycINFO), constructing search filters that NOTed out irrelevant content resulted in substantive improvements in NNR (over four-fold for some purpose categories and databases).
conclusionSearch filter precision can be improved by NOTing out irrelevant content.
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22195215PMC3243169What OpenQuestion holds
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