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Hello all - sorry for cross posting!
This was originally released on 3/31/18 but I don't think I saw it posted. It is open access so free to get to. Any article on searching for adverse effects of surgical interventions is probably good to tuck away for possible future reference.
The development of search filters for adverse effects of surgical interventions in medline and Embase
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hir.12213
Su Golder, Kath Wright, Yoon Kong Loke
Background
Search filter development for adverse effects has tended to focus on retrieving studies of drug interventions. However, a different approach is required for surgical interventions.
Objective
To develop and validate search filters for medline and Embase for the adverse effects of surgical interventions.
Methods
Systematic reviews of surgical interventions where the primary focus was to evaluate adverse effect(s) were sought. The included studies within these reviews were divided randomly into a development set, evaluation set and validation set. Using word frequency analysis we constructed a sensitivity maximising search strategy and this was tested in the evaluation and validation set.
Results
Three hundred and fifty eight papers were included from 19 surgical intervention reviews. Three hundred and fifty two papers were available on medline and 348 were available on Embase. Generic adverse effects search strategies in medline and Embase could achieve approximately 90% relative recall. Recall could be further improved with the addition of specific adverse effects terms to the search strategies.
Conclusion
We have derived and validated a novel search filter that has reasonable performance for identifying adverse effects of surgical interventions in medline and Embase. However, we appreciate the limitations of our methods, and recommend further research on larger sample sizes and prospective systematic reviews.
Julie
Julia M. Esparza, MLS, AHIP
Head, User Education and Outreach Services
Stafford and Marianne Comegys Endowed Professor in Medical Library Science
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Library Science/Health Sciences Library
LSU Health - Shreveport
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