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Candidate search terms for MEDLINE |
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| Search Term |
Reference Standard retrieved (N = 206) |
Total retrieved (N = 1564) |
Sensitivity |
Precision |
Specificity |
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| Controlled Thesaurus Terms |
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| Case-control studies/ |
2 |
8 |
1.0 |
25.0 |
99.5 |
| Cohort studies/ |
5 |
16 |
2.4 |
31.2 |
99.2 |
| Comparative studies/ |
106 |
326 |
51.5 |
32.5 |
83.8 |
| Follow-up studies/ |
35 |
135 |
17.0 |
25.9 |
92.6 |
| Prospective studies/ |
68 |
240 |
33.0 |
28.3 |
87.3 |
| Retrospective studies/ |
78 |
282 |
37.9 |
27.7 |
85.0 |
| Time factors/ |
15 |
60 |
7.3 |
25.0 |
96.7 |
| Treatment outcome/ |
75 |
323 |
36.4 |
23.2 |
81.7 |
| Case reports.pt |
5 |
393 |
2.4 |
1.3 |
71.4 |
| Clinical trial.pt |
25 |
139 |
12.1 |
18.0 |
91.6 |
| Evaluation studies.pt |
12 |
44 |
5.8 |
27.3 |
97.6 |
| Textwords (.tw) |
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| baseline |
16 |
49 |
7.8 |
32.6 |
97.6 |
| case control$ |
3 |
10 |
1.5 |
30.0 |
99.5 |
| case series |
28 |
132 |
13.6 |
21.2 |
92.3 |
| cases |
40 |
223 |
19.4 |
17.9 |
86.5 |
| chang$ |
56 |
310 |
27.2 |
18.1 |
81.3 |
| cohort |
10 |
24 |
4.8 |
41.7 |
99.0 |
| compare$ or compara$ |
98 |
312 |
47.6 |
31.4 |
84.2 |
| consecutive$ |
56 |
163 |
27.2 |
34.4 |
92.1 |
| evaluat$ |
100 |
499 |
48.5 |
20.0 |
70.6 |
| follow$ |
59 |
272 |
28.6 |
21.7 |
84.3 |
| non compara$ or noncompara$ |
14 |
83 |
6.8 |
16.9 |
94.9 |
| non random$ or nonrandom$ |
19 |
51 |
9.2 |
37.2 |
97.6 |
| observational |
3 |
22 |
1.5 |
13.6 |
98.6 |
| post operat$ or postoperat$ |
105 |
538 |
51.0 |
19.5 |
68.1 |
| pre operat$ or preoperat$ |
110 |
454 |
53.4 |
24.2 |
74.7 |
| prospective$ |
60 |
216 |
29.1 |
27.8 |
88.5 |
| retrospective$ |
66 |
242 |
32.0 |
27.3 |
87.0 |
| reviewed |
19 |
67 |
9.2 |
28.4 |
96.5 |
| MeSH and/or Textword (.mp) |
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| case control |
4 |
12 |
1.9 |
33.3 |
99.4 |
| cohort |
11 |
29 |
5.3 |
37.9 |
98.7 |
| compare$ or compara$ |
135 |
464 |
65.5 |
29.1 |
75.8 |
| follow$ |
68 |
312 |
33.0 |
21.8 |
82.0 |
| prospective$ |
69 |
260 |
33.5 |
26.5 |
85.9 |
| retrospective$ |
79 |
296 |
38.3 |
26.7 |
84.0 |
| postoperat$ or post operat$ |
130 |
752 |
63.1 |
17.3 |
54.2 |
| preoperat$ or pre operat$ |
112 |
466 |
54.4 |
24.0 |
73.9 |
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Key / MeSH term pt Term from publication type field tw Text word(s) from title and/or abstract fields mp Term from MeSH and/or title and/or abstract fields. $ Truncation symbol | |||||
Fraser et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006 6:41 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-6-41 |
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