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Searches for Randomized Controlled Trials of Drugs in MEDLINE and EMBASE Using Only Generic Drug Names Compared with Searches Applied in Current Practice in Systematic Reviews
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Waffenschmidt, Siw; Guddat, Charlotte – Research Synthesis Methods, 2015
Background: It is unclear which terms should be included in bibliographic searches for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs, and identifying relevant drug terms can be extremely laborious. The aim of our analysis was to determine whether a bibliographic search using only the generic drug name produces sufficient results for the generation…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Databases