The NICE OECD countries' geographic search filters: Part 2-validation of the MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid) filters.
geography
literature searching
search filter
Journal
Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
ISSN: 1558-9439
Titre abrégé: J Med Libr Assoc
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101132728
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Oct 2021
01 Oct 2021
Historique:
entrez:
3
12
2021
pubmed:
4
12
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We previously developed draft MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid) geographic search filters for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries to assess their feasibility for finding evidence about the countries. Here, we describe the validation of these search filters. We identified OECD country references from thirty National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to generate gold standard sets for MEDLINE (n=2,065) and Embase (n=2,023). We validated the filters by calculating their recall against these sets. We then applied the filters to existing search strategies for three OECD-focused NICE guideline reviews (NG103 on flu vaccination, NG140 on abortion care, and NG146 on workplace health) to calculate the filters' impact on the number needed to read (NNR) of the searches. The filters both achieved 99.95% recall against the gold standard sets. Both filters achieved 100% recall for the three NICE guideline reviews. The MEDLINE filter reduced NNR from 256 to 232 for the NG103 review, from 38 to 27 for the NG140 review, and from 631 to 591 for the NG146 review. The Embase filter reduced NNR from 373 to 341 for the NG103 review, from 101 to 76 for the NG140 review, and from 989 to 925 for the NG146 review. The NICE OECD countries' search filters are the first validated filters for the countries. They can save time for research topics about OECD countries by finding the majority of evidence about OECD countries while reducing search result volumes in comparison to no filter use.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34858087
doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1224
pii: jmla.2021.1224
pmc: PMC8608218
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
583-589Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Lynda Ayiku, Thomas Hudson, Ceri Williams, Paul Levay, Catherine Jacob.
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