Dear Helena
Thanks for that - very interesting. I am copying in Victor Montori for comments, but should also say that I select just one of his (several) filters* for my NCBI and deliberately used a narrower one (for quick rather than complete searches). However, catching the missing CDSR reviews is important, so I will modify my filter to the one you suggest.
Thanks
Paul Glasziou
* Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey.
Montori VM, Wilczynski NL, Morgan D, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. BMJ. 2005 Jan 8;330(7482):68. Epub 2004 Dec 24
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vonville, Helena M
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:06 AM
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There is a flaw in the Montori search in that the approach is far too narrow. Try this in PubMed:
Medline[tiab] OR (systematic[tiab] AND review[tiab]) OR meta-analysis[ptyp]
"cochrane database syst rev"[Journal] OR "cochrane database of systematic reviews online"[Journal]
#2 NOT #1
I retrieved over 1,000 Cochrane reviews from searching by journal title that weren't retrieved with the Montori filter.
I modified with a filter I've been working on and came up with this:
"meta-analysis as topic"[MeSH] OR Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR "systematic literature"[tiab] OR "systematic review*"[tiab] OR meta-analys*[tiab] OR "cochrane database syst rev"[Journal] OR "cochrane database of systematic reviews online"[Journal] OR "research synthesis"[tiab] OR "research integration"[tiab] OR "medline"[tiab] OR "data synthesis"[tiab]
I compared it against the Montori filter and found a fairly substantial number of meta-analyses that the Montori filter missed.
I have not compared my filter against the PubMed filter. At least, not lately. I've opted to take an overly-broad approach with the filters I've developed. The filter above is not too broad, though, but it is a modified version of the full SR/MA filter. A quick scan of the results shows a high percentage of SRs and MAs.
Helena
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Glasziou
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:08 PM
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Subject: Re: The new PubMed Clinical Queries Interface
Good point Tanya - and nice idea to add the filters to MyNCBI.
I never use the PubMed systematic reviews filter - its pretty useless
(unlike the Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Etiology, Clinical Prediction
Rule ones - which are all great!).
So in MyNCBI I have saved one of the Montori filters*:
Medline[tiab] OR (systematic[tiab] AND review[tiab]) OR meta-analysis[ptyp]
If I am logged in to MyNCBI then this filter shows up whatever search I
do! (Including the Clinical Queries filters :-)
But this does not seem to work with the new interface.
Best wishes
Paul Glasziou
* Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from
Medline: analytical survey.
Montori VM, Wilczynski NL, Morgan D, Haynes RB; Hedges Team.
BMJ. 2005 Jan 8;330(7482):68. Epub 2004 Dec 24
Feddern-Bekcan, Tanya wrote:
>
> Thank you for the heads up! Is it just me, or is there no drop-down
> box or checkbox for the Systematic Reviews option?
>
> Since one can have up to 15 Filters for their My NCBI account in
> PubMed, I'm thinking of just adding 4 of the clinical queries and
> Systematic Reviews as filters. It'd be a lot quicker than having to go
> to re-run the search on the Clinical Queries page. Is anyone else
> doing the same thing?
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Tanya
>
> Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
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> *From:* Evidence based health (EBH)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Steve Clancy
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:04 PM
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> *Subject:* The new PubMed Clinical Queries Interface
>
> Howdy.
>
> Has anyone had a chance to work with the new PubMed Clinical Queries
> interface (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pubmedutils/clinical)?
>
> What is your opinion?
>
> --steve
>
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