Search_strategy_filters_database

A compilation of search strategy filters

Organizators:

Rafael Leite Pacheco [1,2,3] , Ana Luiza Cabrera Martimbianco [1,4] , Carolina de Oliveira Cruz Latorraca [1,3] , Rachel Riera [1,3]

Affiliations:

1. Centre of Health Technology Assessment, Hospital Sírio-Libanês
2. Centro Universitário São Camilo
3. Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)
4. Universidade Metropolitana de Santos (Unimes)

Contact for feedbacks and corrections: [email protected]

Disclaimer

We did not develop any of the filters referenced in this compilation. We provided a direct reference from where filters where extracted. Please, cite the original source when using any of the filters available here.

Objectives

To compile relevant search filters commonly used in systematic reviews, overviews, other research synthesis and meta-epidemiological studies.

How to access the filters

1. Select the filter you want to use from the list of files.
2. Copy raw content.
3. Paste the content directly in the search engine of the relevant database. The filters are already converted into an one-sentence ready to run format.
4. Cite the original source that developed the filter (information bellow).

Useful resources for developing a search strategy

• References for multiple search filters from InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group:

https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/issg-search-filters-resource/home?authuser=0

• References for multiple search filters from Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN):

https://www.sign.ac.uk/what-we-do/methodology/search-filters/

• Busca em bases de dados eletrônicas da área da saúde: por onde começar

Latorraca COC, Rodrigues M, Pacheco RL, Martimbianco ALC, Riera R. Busca em bases de dados eletrônicas da área da saúde: por onde começar. Diagn Tratamento. 2019;24(2):59-63.

https://docs.bvsalud.org/biblioref/2019/09/1015338/rdt_v24n2_59-63.pdf

• Cochrane handbook Technical Supplement to Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies

https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current/chapter-04-technical-supplement-searching-and-selecting-studies

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Filters' original sources

1) Clinical trials / therapy filters

Embase

** Cochrane filter:

https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/issg-search-filters-resource/home/rcts/embase-rct-filter

Glanville J, Foxlee R, Wisniewski S, Noel-Storr A, Edwards M, Dooley G. Translating the Cochrane EMBASE RCT filter from the Ovid interface to Embase.com: a case study. Health Info Libr J. 2019 Sep;36(3):264-277. doi: 10.1111/hir.12269

PUBMED

** clinical queries therapy broad:

Sensitive 99% / Specific 70% https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#clinical-study-category-filters

** clinical queries therapy narrow:

Sensitive 93% / Specific 97% https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/#clinical-study-category-filters

2) Systematic reviews filters

Embase via Elsevier

** BMJ BEST PRACTICE - free translation (not validated) to elsevier from ovid filter:

https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/toolkit/learn-ebm/study-design-search-filters/

** CADTH - free translation (not validated) to elsevier from ovid filter:

https://www.cadth.ca/strings-attached-cadths-database-search-filters

** Side_filter_Embase - Embase side filter available at embase.com (elsevier)

'meta analysis'/de OR 'systematic review'/de

PUBMED

** clinical queries systematic sb:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets/sysreviews_strategy.html

** CADTH - Systematic reviews and other synthesis:

https://www.cadth.ca/strings-attached-cadths-database-search-filters

3) Economic filters

PUBMED

** CADTH - Economic Evaluations/Cost/Economic Models:

https://www.cadth.ca/strings-attached-cadths-database-search-filters

** CADTH - Narrow Economic filter:

https://www.cadth.ca/strings-attached-cadths-database-search-filters

4) Clinical Practice Guidelines

PUBMED

** CADTH - Guidelines:

https://www.cadth.ca/strings-attached-cadths-database-search-filters