Links: Searching

Search Filters

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. (2025). Search Filters Database. https://searchfilters.cda-amc.ca/

CareSearch Filters. (2023). Pubmed Searches. https://www.caresearch.com.au/Evidence/Searching-for-Evidence/PubMed-Searches

Center for Evidence-Based Management (2025).Methodological Search Filters.https://cebma.org/resources/tools/cebmas-methodological-search-filters/

Flinders University. (2025). Flinders Filters. https://www.flinders.edu.au/research-centre-palliative-care-death-dying/partnerships-and-projects/flinders-filters

Lowitja Institute. (n.d). Lit Search. https://www.lowitja.org.au/tools/lit-search/

McMaster University. (2022). Hedges Project. https://hiruweb.mcmaster.ca/hkr/hedges/

National Library of Medicine. (2020). PubMed Subject Filters(Archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20210109024442/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets.html

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. (2025). Search filters.https://www.sign.ac.uk/using-our-guidelines/methodology/search-filters/ 

The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group. (2025). SSG Search Filters Resource.https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/issg-search-filters-resource/home

University of Washington. (2025). Finding qualitative research articles. https://guides.lib.uw.edu/hsl/qualres/pubmed

Text Mining Tools

Koster, J. (2014). PubReminer (Version 1.31) [Web tool]. https://hgserver2.amc.nl/cgi-bin/miner/miner2.cgi

Write Works. (2025). WriteWord Phrase frequency Counter [Web tool]. http://www.writewords.org.uk/phrase_count.asp.

Yale University. (2025). Yale Mesh Analyzer [Web tool]. https://mesh.med.yale.edu/

National Centre for Text Mining. (n.d.).Termine [Web tool]. http://www.nactem.ac.uk/software/termine/

Developing a Systematic Review Search Strategy:

Aromataris, E., & Riitano, D. (2014). Constructing a search strategy and searching for evidence. Am J Nurs, 114(5), 49-56. https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/788375/Aromataris-2014-Constructing-a-search-strategy-and-searching-for-evidence.pdf

Bramer, W. M., De Jonge, G. B., Rethlefsen, M. L., Mast, F., & Kleijnen, J. (2018). A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to develop literature searches. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 106(4), 531. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6148622/pdf/jmla-106-531.pdf

Booth, A. (2010). How much searching is enough? Comprehensive versus optimal retrieval for technology assessments. International journal of technology assessment in health care, 26(4), 431-435. DOI: 10.1017/S0266462310000966

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. (2025). PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies. https://www.cda-amc.ca/press-peer-review-electronic-search-strategies 

Flinders University. (2024). Advanced Searching. https://library.flinders.edu.au/researchers/advanced-searching 

Lefebvre, C., Glanville, J., Wieland, L. S., Coles, B., & Weightman, A. L. (2013). Methodological developments in searching for studies for systematic reviews: past, present and future?. Systematic reviews, 2(1), 78. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/2046-4053-2-78.pdf

Ross‐White, A., & Godfrey, C. (2017). Is there an optimum number needed to retrieve to justify inclusion of a database in a systematic review search?. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 34(3), 217-224.DOI:10.1111/hir.12185

Toth, B., Gray, J. M., & Brice, A. (2005). The number needed to read—a new measure of journal value. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 22(2), 81-82. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2005.00568.x

Documenting the Systematic Review Search

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2009). CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care. https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Systematic_Reviews.pdf

Equator Network (2025). Enhancing the quality and transparency of health research. https://www.equator-network.org/

PRISMA (2025).Welcome to the PRISMA website. http://www.prisma-statement.org/

Reviewed: 24/11/2025