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Canada's Drug Agency Health utilities/quality of life filter [Ovid]. Last updated 5 October 2021
There is a broad (sensitive) filter and a "standard" filter
Arber M, Garcia S, Veale T, Edwards M, Shaw A, Glanville J. Performance of Ovid MEDLINE search filters to identify health state utility studies. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 2017;33(4):472-480. Epub 2017 Oct 25.
Arber M, Garcia S, Veale T, Edwards M, Shaw A, Glanville J. Performance of search filters to identify health state utility studies. ISPOR 19th Annual European Congress Vienna, Austria October, 2016
Arber M, Garcia S, Veale T, Edwards M, Shaw A, Glanville J. Sensitivity of a search filter designed to identify studies reporting health state utility values HTAi Annual Conference 2015, Oslo.
Canada's Drug Agency Health utilities/quality of life filters [PubMed, Ovid].
Ovid filter last updated 7 March 2016
Launch strategy for PubMed [6 Oct 2020]