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  • 标题:Identifying diagnostic accuracy studies in EMBASE
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  • 作者:Lucas M. Bachmann ; Pius Estermann ; Corinna Kronenberg
  • 期刊名称:Journal of the Medical Library Association
  • 印刷版ISSN:1536-5050
  • 出版年度:2003
  • 卷号:91
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:341-346
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Medical Library Association
  • 摘要:Objective: The objective was to develop and test search strategies to identify diagnostic articles recorded on EMBASE. Methods: Four general medical journals were hand searched for diagnostic accuracy studies published in 1999. Identified studies served as a gold standard. Candidate terms for search strategies were identified using a word-frequency analysis of their abstracts. According to the frequency of identified terms, searches were run for each term independently. Sensitivity, precision, and number needed to read (NNR) (1/precision) of every candidate term were calculated. Terms with the highest “sensitivity*precision” product were used as free-text terms and combined into a final strategy using the Boolean operator “OR.” Results: The most frequently occurring eight terms (sensitiv* or detect* or accura* or specific* or reliab* or positive or negative or diagnos*) produced a sensitivity of 100% (95% confidence interval [CI] 94.1 to 100%) and an NNR of 27 (95% CI 21.0 to 34.8). The combination of the two truncated terms sensitiv* or detect* gave a sensitivity of 73.8% (95% CI 60.9 to 84.2%) and an NNR of 5.7 (95% CI 4.4 to 7.6). Conclusions: The identified search terms offer the choice of either reasonably sensitive or precise search strategies for the detection of diagnostic accuracy studies in EMBASE. The terms are useful both for busy health care professionals who value precision and for reviewers who value sensitivity.
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