Dear all
I carried out a quick comparison back in September of a number of SR filters available from the issg website. I used the filter alongside search terms for palliative care. Here are the results
Systematic Reviews search filters for MEDLINE OVIDSP
16th September 2014
Combined with Palliative Care/ or Terminal Care/
Alberta University 1045 records
BMJ Clinical Evidence 977
CADTH 1154
CRD 1402
HEDGES specificity 710
HEDGES sensitivity 19570
HEDGES balanced 8672
SIGN 870
What I didnt do was investigate the amount of overlap between the search results and whether any of the strategies identified unique records.
In the past I've compared the CRD search filter with the PubMed filter - there was a large amount of overlap in the results with both filters identifying unique records. The PubMed filter does include some search terms ("consensus development conferences" and "practice guidelines") that you'd expect to identify a wider range of records
bw
Kath
|