ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2021
Development of an efficient search filter to retrieve systematic reviews from PubMed.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Investigating the impact of trial retractions on the healthcare evidence ecosystem (VITALITY Study I): retrospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
- Development and validation of LGBTQIA+ search filters: report on process and pilot filter for queer women.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2025Article
- SGLT2 Inhibitors in COVID-19: Umbrella Review, Meta-Analysis, and Bayesian Sensitivity Assessment.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- How trustworthy and applicable is the evidence from systematic reviews of depression treatments: Protocol for systematic examination.PloS one · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators to enrollment in pediatric clinical trials: an overview of systematic reviews.Systematic reviews · 2024Review
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- 'It depends': what 86 systematic reviews tell us about what strategies to use to support the use of research in clinical practice.Implementation science : IS · 2024Review
- Search strategies (filters) to identify systematic reviews in MEDLINE and Embase.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Prevention of violence against children in the home: an overview of reviews protocol.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveLocating systematic reviews is essential for clinicians and researchers when creating or updating reviews and for decision-making in health care. This study aimed to develop a search filter for retrieving systematic reviews that improves upon the performance of the PubMed systematic review search filter.
methodsSearch terms were identified from abstracts of reviews published in
resultsThe search strategy used in our filter added specific terms not included in PubMed's systematic review filter and achieved a 61.3% increase in the number of retrieved articles that are potential systematic reviews. Moreover, it achieved an average precision that is likely greater than 80%.
conclusionsThe developed search filter will enable users to identify more systematic reviews from PubMed than the PubMed systematic review filter with high precision.
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