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标题：Supplementary searches of PubMed to improve currency of MEDLINE and MEDLINE In-Process searches via Ovid
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作者：Steven Duffy ; Shelley de Kock ; Kate Misso 等
期刊名称：Journal of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：1536-5050
出版年度：2016
卷号：104
期号：4
页码：309-312
DOI：10.3163/1536-5050.104.4.011
语种：English
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：Objective The research investigated whether conducting a supplementary search of PubMed in addition to the main MEDLINE (Ovid) search for a systematic review is worthwhile and to ascertain whether this PubMed search can be conducted quickly and if it retrieves unique, recently published, and ahead-of-print studies that are subsequently considered for inclusion in the final systematic review. Methods Searches of PubMed were conducted after MEDLINE (Ovid) and MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) searches had been completed for seven recent reviews. The searches were limited to records not in MEDLINE or MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid). Results Additional unique records were identified for all of the investigated reviews. Search strategies were adapted quickly to run in PubMed, and reviewer screening of the results was not time consuming. For each of the investigated reviews, studies were ordered for full screening; in six cases, studies retrieved from the supplementary PubMed searches were included in the final systematic review. Conclusion Supplementary searching of PubMed for studies unavailable elsewhere is worthwhile and improves the currency of the systematic reviews.