Orientador: Regina Paolucci El Dib / Resumo: Introduction: A high-quality electronic search is essential in ensuring accuracy and comprehensivness in identifying potentially relevant records in conducting a systematic review. To assist researchers in identifying terms when formulating a sensitive search strategy, librarians and educators instruct researchers to consult and include preferred and non-preferred terms of the controlled database. However, by using all available terms in the thesaurus (i.e. subject headings), strategies can be lengthy and very laborious. Objective: To identify the most efficient method for searching in both Medline through PubMed and EMBASE, covering search terms with different spellings, direct and indirect orders, and association (or lack thereof) with MeSH and EMTREE terms. Method: In our cross-sectional study of search strategies, we selected and analysed 37 search strategies specifically developed for the anesthesiology field. These search strategies were adapted in order to cover all potentially relevant search terms in terms of different spellings and direct and indirect orders, most efficiently. Results: When adapted to include different spellings and direct and indirect orders, adapted versions of the selected search strategies retrieved the same number of search results in the Medline (mean of 61,3%) and higher number in EMBASE (mean of 63,9%) of the analyzed sample. The number of results retrieved by the searches analysed was not identical using the association or not of MeSH and E... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Doutor
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UNESP/oai:www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br:UEP01-000892075 |
Date | January 2017 |
Creators | Volpato, Enilze de Souza Nogueira. |
Contributors | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" Faculdade de Medicina. |
Publisher | Botucatu, |
Source Sets | Universidade Estadual Paulista |
Language | Portuguese |
Detected Language | English |
Type | computer file |
Relation | Sistema requerido: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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