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ArticlePalliative medicine2019

Development and validation of search filters to find articles on palliative care in bibliographic databases.

Judith Ac Rietjens, Wichor M Bramer, Eric Ct Geijteman, Agnes van der Heide, Wendy H Oldenmenger

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Article in Palliative medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Judith Ac Rietjens1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0538-5603
Wichor M Bramer2 Medical Library, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Eric Ct Geijteman1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Agnes van der Heide1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Wendy H Oldenmenger3 Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6855-6505
Erasmus MC · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHealthcare professionals and researchers in the field of palliative care often have difficulties finding relevant articles in online databases. Standardized search filters may help improve the efficiency and quality of such searches, but prior developed filters showed only moderate performance.

aimTo develop and validate a specific search filter and a sensitive search filter for the field of palliative care.

designWe used a novel, objective method for search filter development. First, we created a gold standard set. This set was split into three groups: term identification, filter development, and filter validation set. After creating the filters in PubMed, we translated the filters into search filters for Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsychINFO, and Cochrane Library. We calculated specificity, sensitivity and precision of both filters.

resultsThe specific filter had a specificity of 97.4%, a sensitivity of 93.7%, and a precision of 45%. The sensitive filter had a sensitivity of 99.6%, a specificity of 92.5%, and a precision of 5%.

conclusionOur search filters can support literature searches in the field of palliative care. Our specific filter retrieves 93.7% of relevant articles, while 45% of the retrieved articles are relevant. This filter can be used to find answers to questions when time is limited. Our sensitive filter finds 99.6% of all relevant articles and may, for instance, help conducting systematic reviews. Both filters perform better than prior developed search filters in the field of palliative care.

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Databases, BibliographicInformation Seeking BehaviorPalliative CareSoftwarebibliographic databasesevidence-based practiceInformation storage and retrievalmethodological filterspalliative caresearch filtersterminal care

Identifiers

PMID30688143
PMCPMC6439930
OpenAlexW2914333997

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