Search Strategy
Types of reporting bias include:
- Publication bias
- Time lag bias
- Multiple (duplicate) publication bias
- Location bias
- Citation bias
- Language bias
- Outcome reporting bias
For details see: Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (2008, Chapter 10)
The following sites include examples of pre-tested search filters:
- AHRQ – Making Healthcare Safer III Patient Safety PracticesA set of systematic reviews on patient safety issues including suggested search terms in each “Methods” section
- Clinical Queries TableFrom the National Center for Biotechnology Information
- HEDGES ProjectFrom McMaster Universtiy, includes MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO.
- The InterTASC Information Specialists’ Sub-Group Search Filter ResourceISSG is the group of information professionals supporting research groups within England and Scotland providing technology assessments to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and other associated Information Specialists.
- PubMed Search Strategies Blog“This blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies. Search strategies posted here are not perfect. They are posted in the hope that others will benefit from the work already put into their creation and/or will offer suggestions for improvements.”
- SIGNScottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
Translating search strategies from one platform to another.
- MEDLINE TransposeTranslates searches from PubMed to Ovid MEDLINE and vice versa.
- Database Syntax GuideFrom Cochrane–search syntax from multiple platforms.
- PsycInfo Topics GuideIncludes suggested search terms.
For more information:
- Formulating Answerable Clinical QuestionsFrom the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine by Call Number: Carlson Health Sci Library WB 102.5 E933 2019ISBN: 9780702062964Publication Date: 2018-04-23Constitutes a traditional way of presenting ideas about EBM. It explains how to ask answerable clinical questions, translate them into effective searches for the best evidence, critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance, integrate it with patients' values and preferences, assess the practice of EBM.
