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Canada's Drug Agency. Filter for perspectives and experiences of patients and caregivers. [EBSCO] Last updated August 2017.
SIGN search filter [undated] [Ovid]
Campbell SM. Filter to Retrieve Studies Related to Community-Based or Participatory Research in the OVID EMBASE Database. Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, July 8, 2020.
Wessels M, Hielkema L, van der Weijden T. How to identify existing literature on patients' knowledge, views, and values: the development of a validated search filter. J Med LibrAssoc. 2016;104(4):320-324
SIGN search filter [undated] [Ovid]
Wessels, M, Hielkema, L. How are we feeling today? The sensitivity of a literature search filter for patients' values and preferences. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013. 22; Suppl 1:A33.2
Masri HE, McGuire TM, Dalais C, van Driel M, Benham H, Hollingworth SA. Patient-based benefit-risk assessment of medicines: development, refinement, and validation of a content search strategy to retrieve relevant studies. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022;110(2):185-204. [PubMed]
Campbell SM. Filter to Retrieve Studies Related to Community-Based or Participatory Research in the OVID MEDLINE Database. Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta Rev. April 8, 2021.
Flinders University. Primary Health Care Research and Information Services.(Searches can be launched from the Flinders site)
Patient experience [PubMed]
FMD(3S)/CHLA Patient perspectives search filter [2018] [Filter available for MEDLINE via PubMED]
Selva A, Solà I, Zhang Y, Pardo-Hernandez H, Haynes RB, Martínez García L, Navarro T, Schünemann H, Alonso-Coello P. Development and use of a content search strategy for retrieving studies on patients' views and preferences.Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2017;15(1):126
Canada's Drug Agency. Filter for perspectives and experiences of patients and caregivers. [Ovid and PubMed] Last updated August 2017.
Rogers M, Bethel A, Boddy K. Development and testing of a medline search filter for identifying patient and public involvement in health research. Health Info Libr J. 2017. doi: 10.1111/hir.12157. [Epub ahead of print]
Wessels M, Hielkema L, van der Weijden T. How to identify existing literature on patients' knowledge, views, and values: the development of a validated search filter. J Med Libr Assoc. 2016;104(4):320-324
van Hoorn R, Kievit W, Booth A, Mozygemba K, Lysdahl KB, Refolo P, Sacchini D, Gerhardus A, van der Wilt GJ, Tummers M. The development of PubMed search strategies for patient preferences for treatment outcomes. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2016;16:88.
SIGN search filter [undated] [Ovid]
Wessels, M, Hielkema, L. How are we feeling today? The sensitivity of a literature search filter for patients' values and preferences. BMJ Quali Saf. 2013; 22 (Suppl 1):A33.2
Petrova M; Sutcliffe P; Fulford KW; Dale J. Search terms and a validated brief search filter to retrieve publications on health-related values in Medline: aword frequency analysis study. J Am Med Informatics Assoc. 2012;19(3):479-88.
Canada's Drug Agency. Filter for perspectives and experiences of patients and caregivers. Last updated August 2017.