The NICE search filters for treating and managing COVID-19: validation in MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In this paper we report how the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) search filters for treating and managing COVID-19 were validated for use in MEDLINE (Ovid) and Embase (Ovid). The objective was to achieve at least 98.9% for recall and 64% for precision.

Methods

We did two tests of recall to finalize the draft search filters. We updated the data from an earlier peer-reviewed publication for the first recall test. For the second test, we collated a set of systematic reviews from Epistemonikos COVID-19 L.OVE and extracted their primary studies. We calculated precision by screening all the results retrieved by the draft search filters from a targeted sample covering 2020-23. We developed a gold-standard set to validate the search

SUBMITTER: Levay P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11412126 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature