Search strategies to identify information on adverse effects: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The review evaluated studies of electronic database search strategies designed to retrieve adverse effects data for systematic reviews.

Methods

Studies of adverse effects were located in ten databases as well as by checking references, hand-searching, searching citations, and contacting experts. Two reviewers screened the retrieved records for potentially relevant papers.

Results

Five thousand three hundred thirteen citations were retrieved, yielding 19 studies designed to develop or evaluate adverse effect filters, of which 3 met the inclusion criteria. All 3 studies identified highly sensitive search strategies capable of retrieving over 95% of relevant records. However, 1 study did not evaluate precision, while the level of precision in the other 2 studi

SUBMITTER: Golder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2670220 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature