Updated generic search filters for finding studies of adverse drug effects in Ovid medline and Embase may retrieve up to 90% of relevant studies

• Published in: Health information and libraries journal Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 190 - 200
• Main Authors: Golder, Su, Farrah, Kelly, Mierzwinski‐Urban, Monika, Barker, Beth, Rama, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2023
• Subjects: Frequency analysis; Recall; Search methods; Test sets; MEDLINE; evaluation; EMBASE; information retrieval; literature searching; search strategies; methodological filters; medical subject headings (MeSH)

The most current objectively derived search filters for adverse drug effects are 15 years old and other strategies have not been developed and tested empirically. To develop and validate search filters to retrieve evidence on adverse drug effects from Ovid medline and Ovid Embase. We identified syst...