Dear David and all,
The BestBETS filter was presented at the 8th EAHIL, Cologne, 16-21 September
2002. However, please note that the filter is currently being updated to
reflect changes in the 2002/3 MeSH. Substantial changes were made to the Age
Groups separating desciptors for population or patient groups from those
reflecting true age groupings. Changes to MeSH can be viewed in the NLM
technical bulletin at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd02/nd02_2003_mesh.html
Until we have finished testing (soon!) I would advise that MeSH terms
previously captured under exp child are also included within a 'child'
search. The updated filter will appear on the BestBETs website
(http://www.bestbets.org/links/strategies.html) as soon as testing is
finished.
This highlights one of the limitations described in the literature of the
importance of keeping filters, methodological or otherwise up-to-date! What
we would also point out is that a good journal search should search on
journal word rather than title, thus overcoming journals associated with
children etc of which the exact title is unknown or even typed incorrectly.
I would be very interested to hear from anyone currently involved in
developing their own filters and their experiences or anyone who would like
to take part in collating subject terms for filters, since part of my PhD
research involves the development subject filters, which I shall make
available to all on the www.
Michelle Jenkins
Research student/Information Officer
MMU/Emergency Department,Manchester Royal Infirmary
Tel: 0161 276 5798
>From: David Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: David Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Limiting to papers about children on Medline - summary of
>responses
>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:44:08 -0000
>
>I've been asked to summarise the responses to this for the list, so here
>goes:
>
>Hannah Prince and Julie Glanville both suggested running the textword
>search on the journal title field as well (and my face is quite red that
>I'd overlooked that). Julie also agreed with me that a journal subset for
>paediatrics would be a good idea.
>Helen Carter pointed me towards BestBET's excellent filter at:
>
>http://www.bestbets.org/links/bb_paed_filter_poster_3.pdf
>
>- which I will definitely be using.
>
>Reinhard Wentz thought I was trying too hard as "Medicine is not about
>perfection, but pragmatic muddling through" - very true, but I can't see
>that going down too well with my colleagues in the West Mercia Guidelines
>Partnership! It was also very unwise to threaten me with Occam's Razor in
>front of so many witnesses - when I'm found with my throat cut beneath a
>pile of "unnecessary entities", the path will lead straight to Chelsea &
>Westminster's door...
>
>Thanks to everyone for the helpful suggestions. I still think that it
>wouldn't hurt the indexers (excellent though they are) to slap a "child"
>tag on everything relevant instead of omitting it for huge swathes of
>material from the specialist paediatric jounals...
>
>David Rogers
>Clinical Effectiveness Librarian
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