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Harrison J. Designing a search strategy to identify and retrieve articles on evidence-based health care using MEDLINE. Health Libr Rev. 1997;14(1):33-42.
Lavin MA, Krieger MM, Meyer GA, Spasser MA, Cvitan T, Reese CG, Carlson JH, Perry AG, McNary P. Development and evaluation of evidence-based nursing (EBN) filters and related databases. J Med Libr Assoc. 2005; 93(1):104-15.
OVID EBM filters. Search filters for etiology, prognosis, metaanalysis and therapy