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Developing optimal search strategies for retrieving clinically relevant qualitative studies in EMBASE.

Qualitative researchers address many issues relevant to patient health care. Their studies appear in an array of journals, making literature searching difficult. Large databases such as EMBASE provide a means of retrieving qualitative research, but these studies represent only a minuscule fraction o...

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Publicado en:Qualitative Health Research Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 162 - 169
Autores principales: Walters LA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jan2006
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
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          Computerized Literature Searching Methods
          Embase
          Information Retrieval
          Confidence Intervals
          Database Management Software
          Descriptive Statistics
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          Medical Informatics
          Medline
          Qualitative Studies
          Sensitivity and Specificity
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      ab: Qualitative researchers address many issues relevant to patient health care. Their studies appear in an array of journals, making literature searching difficult. Large databases such as EMBASE provide a means of retrieving qualitative research, but these studies represent only a minuscule fraction of published articles, making electronic retrieval problematic. Little work has been done on developing search strategies for the detection of qualitative studies. The objective of this study was to develop optimal search strategies to retrieve qualitative studies in EMBASE for the 2000 publishing year. The authors conducted an analytic survey, comparing hand searches of journals with retrievals from EMBASE for candidate search terms and combinations. Search strategies reached peak sensitivities at 94.2% and peak specificities of 99.7%. Combining search terms to optimize the combination of sensitivity and specificity resulted in values over 89% for both. The authors identified search strategies with high performance for retrieving qualitative studies in EMBASE.
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