Dear Mike,
The search in my earlier email would not miss the predominantly adult studies that have Child/Adolescent indexing. It only removes those records that have Child index terms but not Adult index terms. It should identify
· Topic studies with Adult index terms
· Topic studies with Adult and Child/Adolescent/Infant terms
· Topic studies with no age-related indexing
To search for child studies you can do a similar search but swap the index terms around to you are removing records from you search results that just have ‘Adult’ index terms. I too have found that many predominantly adult studies have ‘adolescent’ and ‘child’ terms, with no mention of children in the title or abstract so I can only assume they are mentioned in the full text.
The search to remove purely Adult studies from search results would be
1 [result of topic search]
2 (exp Adult/ NOT (exp Child/ OR Adolescent/ OR exp Infant/))
3 1 NOT 2
This finds
· Topic studies with Child/Adolescent/Infant index terms
· Topic studies with Adult and Child/Adolescent/Infant terms
· Topic studies with no age-related indexing
Best wishes
Judy
Judy Wright
Senior Information Specialist
From: Roddham Mike [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 January 2015 09:25
To: Judy Wright; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: And now a query about limiting to adult studies in a lit search..
I regularly come across papers that are predominantly adult-based but include child or adolescent in their indexing. Frustrating when doing a paediatric search but are you likely to miss these?
Regards
Mike
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Judy Wright
Sent: 27 January 2015 09:09
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Subject: Re: And now a query about limiting to adult studies in a lit search..
Dear Sarah,
I do a very similar search when trying to limit results to adults. I think the safest way is to remove the purely child studies as you have done. The exploded Child MeSH includes the heading ‘Child, Preschool’ but doesn’t include Adolescent/ or Infant/ MeSH headings. If you want to include these age groups in your child search you could do the following
1 [result of topic search]
2 (exp Child/ OR Adolescent/ OR exp Infant/) NOT exp Adult/))
3 1 NOT 2
This would retrieve the topic search but with any purely child or infant or adolescent studies removed.
This assumes the indexing is 100% accurate for those records that have a child heading attached. I guess there is always a chance that an indexer may assign the headings child/ and adolescent/ but not adult/ by mistake to a study of participants ranging from say 10 – 20. I’m not aware of any research to show this is a problem – but would be interested to hear if anyone has looked closely into this.
Best wishes
Judy
Judy Wright
Senior Information Specialist
From: Sutton Sarah - Clinical Librarian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 January 2015 14:55
Subject: And now a query about limiting to adult studies in a lit search..
Dear All
I am searching in Ovid as I expect to find thousands of results and this is my search to exclude purely children studies, line 53 is the results of my topic search and I am trying to limit to adult studies only. I realise this will mean I am limiting my results to articles tagged as being about adults.
Can you all think of any other reason I shouldn’t do it?
Best wishes
Sarah
54 | exp Child/ | 1555371 | Advanced | ||
55 | exp Adult/ | 5628420 | Advanced | ||
56 | 54 not (54 and 55) | 972652 | Advanced | ||
57 | 53 not 56 | 12997 | Advanced |
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Best wishes
Sarah
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