Dear all,
For years I worked with Ovid to search in Medline. However, PubMed is
available for free and increasingly user-friendly. Therefore we advise it
to students in courses. However, I can't use my carefully selected
methodological search filters anymore. In PubMed there are some under
Clinical Queries, but I especially miss the one for systematic reviews
(Hunt and McKibbon) and the highly sensitive and specific search for RCTs
from the Cochrane Collaboration. In addition, I would actually welcome any
generic search filter, e.g. for evidence-based medicine.
Therefore: are there any websites with downloadable search fliters for
PUBMED? (I know plenty with filters for Ovid already). If you have some
filters made yourself or copied from others, can you please send them to
me??? It would prevent "duplication of effort" (one of the Cochrane
Collaboration principles).
Pim Assendelft MD PhD
DUTCH COCHRANE CENTRE
(presence at DCC: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
Address:
Academisch Medisch Centrum
Dutch Cochrane Centre, locatiecode J-221
P.O. Box 22660
1100 DD Amsterdam
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