anne marie (et al)
i would think that ann mckibbon would be the person to advise you on the
pubmed versus full-blown mcmaster filters, so i am copying this to her, in
case she does not see it.
i am also copying this message to a colleague at ovid, so they can comment
on the situation re saving searches, which is a fundamental requirement,
particularly in the ebm area.
depending on the methodolgy, eg for rcts, you can save your search when
searching the cochrane controlled trials register on the cochrane library
via the cd-rom version (to a floppy, your hard drive, etc), and i am
advised that saving search histories will be available on the internet
version of the cochrane library from jan 2000 (where search histories will
be saved on update software's server and deleted after a period of
inactivity, eg a few months).
with best wishes
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne-Marie Haraldstad [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 4:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Methodology filters and OVID web Medline
Dear list-members,
I'm preparing a library workshop next week where the issue will be on more
advanced Medline search strategies included the
evidence-based-medicine-way-of-thinking.
I have done this before, and one of the things the participants mostly
appreciated were the hands-on session where they typed and saved the
different methodology filters to a floppy, which they took "home" for later
use to run as saved seaches in combination with the subject in question.
Now times have changed - again: we search Medline OVID webversion over the
internet. This way of searching does not allow us to save search strategies
on floppies at all, and we are only allowed to save temporarily for 24
hours on the harddisk.
So that was end of story of saved methodology filters, and SDIs for that
matter. Does anybody know a way to get around this?
Last week Dr Trish Greenhalgh had an interesting comment on the list as to
the PubMed filters, quoted below. However, the methodology filters on
PubMed seem to me more "shallow" than the "full size" I use (McMaster's).
Anybody comment on that?
Being a librarian interested in EBM, I'm in a constant mode of "continuing
education" in need of advice from the medical field.
Any comment will be appreciated.
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Quote, Greenhalgh:
"PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) has some fantastic built-in search
filters for identifying most
high-quality trials in therapy, prevention, harm, etiology etc, put
together by Bryan Haynes. These have saved me hours of time in searching
for quantitative studies..."
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Anne-Marie H.
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Kind regards,
Anne-Marie Haraldstad
Librarian
Rikshospitalet (National Hospital)
Medical Library and Information Center
Oslo, Norway
mailto:[log in to unmask]
http://www.ub.uio.no/umed/
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