The feasibility of a search filter for the adverse effects of nondrug interventions in MEDLINE and Embase.

ABSTRACT: Authors and indexers are increasingly including terms for adverse drug effects in the titles, abstracts, or indexing of records in MEDLINE and Embase. However, it is not clear if this is the same for studies with nondrug adverse effects data. We therefore assessed the feasibility of using adverse effects terms when searching MEDLINE or Embase to retrieve papers of nondrug adverse effects. A collection of papers that reported data on nondrug adverse effects was sought from included studies of systematic reviews. Each included study was analysed to ascertain whether the corresponding record in MEDLINE and Embase included adverse effects terms in the title, abstract, or indexing. From 9129 records screened from DARE, 30 reviews evaluating nondrug adverse effects met our inclusion criteria. Fr

SUBMITTER: Golder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725700 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature