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Direct linkAyiku, Lynda; Levay, Paul; Hudson, Thomas; Finnegan, Amy – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) United Kingdom (UK) geographic search filters for MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid) retrieve evidence in literature searches for UK-focused research topics with high recall. Their precision and number-needed-to-read (NNR) was examined previously in case studies using a single…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Databases, Information Retrieval, Indexing
Levay, Paul; Heath, Andrea; Tuvey, Daniel – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Systematic searches are integral to identifying the evidence that is used in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guidelines (PHGs). This study analyses the sources, including bibliographic databases and other techniques, required for PHGs. The aims were to analyse the sources used to identify the publications…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Public Health, Guidelines, Information Sources
