ISSG structured abstract for:
Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence: systematic reviews filter
Structured abstract prepared by: Sue Bayliss
Objective:
This filter is designed to identify systematic reviews in MEDLINE (Ovid).
Methods:
The author combined two strategies (McKibbon and PubMed Clinical Queries) and removed any duplicate terms.
Results:
The author stated that no formal research was conducted to test the filter and thus it has not been validated.
Discussion:
The filter has not been updated since 2003 although there have been amendments to the PubMed strategy in the meantime.
ISSG commentary:
This is a highly sensitive strategy which captures a very broad range of evidence based literature.