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The NICE UK Geographic Search Filters for MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid): Post-Development Study to Further Evaluate Precision and Number-Needed-to-Read When Retrieving UK Evidence
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Ayiku, 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