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lilacs search strategy for systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies
Author(s) -
Pereira Rogério Aparecido,
Puga Maria Eduarda dos Santos,
Atallah Álvaro Nagib,
Macedo Elizeu Coutinho,
Macedo Cristiane Rufino
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12263
Subject(s) - medline , cochrane library , medicine , systematic review , information retrieval , computer science , medical physics , meta analysis , pathology , law , political science
Background There are few publications on search strategies to identify diagnostic test accuracy ( DTA ) studies in lilacs . Objective To translate and customise medline search strategies for use in lilacs and assess their retrieval of studies in Cochrane DTA systematic reviews. Method We developed a six‐step process to translate and customise medline search strategies for use in lilacs (iAHx interface). We identified medline search strategies of published Cochrane DTA reviews, translated/customised them for use in lilacs , ran searches in lilacs and compared the retrieval results of our translated search strategy versus the one used in the published reviews. Results Our lilacs search strategies translated/customised from the medline strategies retrieved studies in 70 Cochrane DTA reviews. Only 29 of these reviews stated that they had searched the lilacs database and 21 published their lilacs search strategies. Few had used the lilacs database search tools, none exploded the subject headings, and 86% used only English terms. Conclusion Translating and tailoring a medline search strategy for the lilacs database resulted in the retrieval of DTA studies that would have been missed otherwise.