Complementary approaches to searching MEDLINE may be sufficient for updating systematic reviews
| Autor: | Berry de Bruijn, Christine Urquhart, Margaret Sampson, Kaveh G Shojania |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Epidemiology
Computer science MEDLINE systematic reviews PubMed similar articles Stability (learning theory) Information Storage and Retrieval updating Sample (statistics) computer.software_genre Ranking (information retrieval) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality clinical query Humans support vector machine information retrieval 030212 general & internal medicine Information retrieval Recall 030503 health policy & services Gold standard (test) United States Support vector machine Review Literature as Topic Systematic review searches Data mining 0305 other medical science computer Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 78:108-115 |
| ISSN: | 0895-4356 |
| Popis: | Objectives To maximize the proportion of relevant studies identified for inclusion in systematic reviews (recall), complex time-consuming Boolean searches across multiple databases are common. Although MEDLINE provides excellent coverage of health science evidence, it has proved challenging to achieve high levels of recall through Boolean searches alone. Study Design and Setting Recall of one Boolean search method, the clinical query (CQ), combined with a ranking method, support vector machine (SVM), or PubMed-related articles, was tested against a gold standard of studies added to 6 updated Cochrane reviews and 10 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) evidence reviews. For the AHRQ sample, precision and temporal stability were examined for each method. Results Recall of new studies was 0.69 for the CQ, 0.66 for related articles, 0.50 for SVM, 0.91 for the combination of CQ and related articles, and 0.89 for the combination of CQ and SVM. Precision was 0.11 for CQ and related articles combined, and 0.11 for CQ and SVM combined. Related articles showed least stability over time. Conclusions The complementary combination of a Boolean search strategy and a ranking strategy appears to provide a robust method for identifying relevant studies in MEDLINE. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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