Validating a MEDLINE search strategy for physical diagnosis studies

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Validating a MEDLINE search strategy for physical diagnosis studies

Background

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Example of a search strategy

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Purpose

Methods - Overview

Methods - Gathering the pool

Methods - Creating a search strategy

Results - studies found

Results - indivisual search terms

Results - improving sensitivity

Results - improving precision

Results - summary of each strategy's sensitivity

Example of our search strategy

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Conclusions

Implications

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Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Dr. Henry Schneiderman for providing his database of articles that contributed to our reference set. Dr. Schneiderman's database, Bedside Diagnosis can be search online at the American College of Physicans - American Society of Internal Medicine.