Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments.
Objectives: For the measurement of patient-reported outcomes, such as (health-related) quality of life, often many measurement instruments exist that intend to measure the same construct. To facilitate instrument selection, our aim was to develop a highly sensitive search filter for finding studies...
| Publicado en: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 18; no. 8; pp. 1115 - 1124 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Oct2009
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105226074&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105226074 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09629343 GPQ jtl: Quality of Life Research issn: 09629343 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2009 vid: 18 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 105226074 NLM19711195 2010403129 10.1007/s11136-009-9528-5 NLM19711195 PMC2744791 105226074 ppf: 1115 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments. aug: au: Terwee CB Jansma EP Riphagen II de Vet HC Terwee, Caroline B Jansma, Elise P Riphagen, Ingrid I de Vet, Henrica C W affil: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands sug: subj: Data Mining Medical Practice, Evidence-Based Methods Health Status Indicators PubMed Quality of Life Software Bibliometrics Confidence Intervals Data Collection Human Information Retrieval Diagnosis, Laboratory Psychometrics Questionnaires Weights and Measures Sensitivity and Specificity ab: Objectives: For the measurement of patient-reported outcomes, such as (health-related) quality of life, often many measurement instruments exist that intend to measure the same construct. To facilitate instrument selection, our aim was to develop a highly sensitive search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments in PubMed and a more precise search filter that needs less abstracts to be screened, but at a higher risk of missing relevant studies.Methods: A random sample of 10,000 PubMed records (01-01-1990 to 31-12-2006) was used as a gold standard. Studies on measurement properties were identified using an exclusion filter and hand searching. Search terms were selected from the relevant records in the gold standard as well as from 100 systematic reviews of measurement properties and combined based on sensitivity and precision. The performance of the filters was tested in the gold standard as well as in two validation sets, by calculating sensitivity, precision, specificity, and number needed to read.Results: We identified 116 studies on measurement properties in the gold standard. The sensitive search filter was able to retrieve 113 of these 116 studies (sensitivity 97.4%, precision 4.4%). The precise search filter had a sensitivity of 93.1% and a precision of 9.4%. Both filters performed very well in the validation sets.Conclusion: The use of these search filters will contribute to evidence-based selection of measurement instruments in all medical fields. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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