A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to develop literature searches.

ABSTRACT: Creating search strategies for systematic reviews, finding the best balance between sensitivity and specificity, and translating search strategies between databases is challenging. Several methods describe standards for systematic search strategies, but a consistent approach for creating an exhaustive search strategy has not yet been fully described in enough detail to be fully replicable. The authors have established a method that describes step by step the process of developing a systematic search strategy as needed in the systematic review. This method describes how single-line search strategies can be prepared in a text document by typing search syntax (such as field codes, parentheses, and Boolean operators) before copying and pasting search terms (keywords and free-text synonyms) tha

SUBMITTER: Bramer WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6148622 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature