Search terms and a validated brief search filter to retrieve publications on health-related values in Medline: a word frequency analysis study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Healthcare debates and policy developments are increasingly concerned with a broad range of values-related areas. These include not only ethical, moral, religious, and other types of values 'proper', but also beliefs, preferences, experiences, choices, satisfaction, quality of life, etc. Research on such issues may be difficult to retrieve. This study used word frequency analysis to generate a broad pool of search terms and a brief filter to facilitate relevant searches in bibliographic databases.

Methods

Word frequency analysis for 'values terms' was performed on citations on diabetes, obesity, dementia, and schizophrenia (Medline; 2004-2006; 4440 citations; 1,110,291 words). Concordance® and SPSS 14.0 were used. Text words and MeSH terms of high frequency and pre

SUBMITTER: Petrova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3341778 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature