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Lunny C, Salzwedel D M, Liu T, Ramasubbu C, Gerrish S, Puil L, Mintzes B, Wright J M. Validation of five search filters for retrieval of clinical practice guidelines produced low precision. J Clin Epidemiol 2019. 117:109-116.
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Lunny C, Salzwedel D M, Liu T, Ramasubbu C, Gerrish S, Puil L, Mintzes B, Wright, J M. Validation of five search filters for retrieval of clinical guidelines produced low precision. Presented at the Cochrane Colloquium: Embracing diversity; 2019 Dec 2-6; Santiago, Chile
Lunny CA, Salzwedel D M, Liu T, Ramasubbu C, Gerrish S, Puil L, Mintzes B, Wright J M. Protocol for the validation of four search strategies for retrieval of Clinical Practice Guidelines in MEDLINE, Embase and PubMed. PeerJ Preprints 2018;6:e27149v1
Database indexing changes over time and new vocabulary may be introduced. With older filters, please check the subject indexing to ensure that the subject indexing is still current and, if not, consider whether new vocabulary may need to be added to the filter. Please note that if filters are amended, the performance may change from that published in the original articles and the filter should be reported as amended from the original filter.
Canada's Drug Agency. Filters for broad (sensitive) and "standard" searches [EBSCO]. Last updated 20 February 2020.
Canada's Drug Agency. Filters for broad (sensitive) and "standard" searches. Multifile Ovid search in MEDLINE, Embase and PsycINFO. Last updated 9 December 2021.
University of Pittsburgh. Health Sciences Library System. Filters for practice guidelines and recommendations (9 September 2024).
Canada's Drug Agency.
Filters for broad (sensitive) and "standard" searches. Multifile Ovid search in MEDLINE, Embase and PsycINFO. Last updated 9 December 2021.
Launch broad (sensitive) search filter in PubMed. Last updated 2 April 2020
There is also a "standard" search for PubMed at the same site. Last updated 13 August 2020
FMD(3S)/CHLA Guidelines search filter [Nov 2018]
Launch search filter in Ovid MEDLINE (subscribers only)
Canada's Drug Agency. Filters for broad (sensitive) and "standard" searches. Multifile Ovid search in MEDLINE, Embase and PsycINFO. Last updated 9 December 2021.