Objectives Despite their essential role in collecting and organizing published medical
literature, indexed search engines are unable to cover all relevant knowledge. Hence …

OBJECTIVE: The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) assesses the
added benefit of new drugs by means of company dossiers. The pharmaceutical company …

Objective: Locating systematic reviews is essential for clinicians and researchers when
creating or updating reviews and for decision-making in health care. This study aimed to …

Objective To develop and evaluate a search strategy for identifying systematic reviews by
using a publicly available MEDLINE interface (PubMed). Design Diagnostic test …

Objective The most used search engine for scientific literature, PubMed, provides tools to
filter results by several fields. When searching for reports on clinical trials, sample size can …

Purpose Effective literature searches are critical to researchers and health care
professionals. To conduct literature searches, clinicians, researchers and nurses rely …

Purpose Systematic reviews of biomedical literature are used to inform patient treatment. Yet
the acquisition of relevant literature is proving increasingly challenging due to the large …

Background A high‐quality electronic search is essential in ensuring accuracy and
completeness in retrieved records for the conducting of a systematic review. Objective We …

Objective To develop, through revision of the Cochrane Collaboration search strategy for
OVID-MEDLINE, a highly sensitive search strategy to retrieve reports of controlled trials …

Background Clinicians perform searches in PubMed daily, but retrieving relevant studies is
challenging due to the rapid expansion of medical knowledge. Little is known about the …