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Candidate search terms for EMBASE |
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| Search Term |
Reference Standard retrieved (N = 191) |
Total retrieved (N = 1521) |
Sensitivity |
Precision |
Specificity |
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| Controlled Thesaurus Terms |
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| Case report/ |
1 |
348 |
0.5 |
0.3 |
73.9 |
| Clinical trial/ |
23 |
131 |
12.0 |
17.6 |
91.9 |
| Cohort analysis/ |
3 |
9 |
1.6 |
33.3 |
99.5 |
| Comparative study/ |
13 |
39 |
6.8 |
33.3 |
98.0 |
| Controlled study/ |
79 |
309 |
41.4 |
25.6 |
82.7 |
| Follow-up study/ |
45 |
212 |
23.6 |
21.2 |
87.4 |
| Major clinical study/ |
106 |
308 |
55.5 |
34.4 |
84.8 |
| Prospective study/ |
22 |
74 |
11.5 |
29.7 |
96.1 |
| Retrospective study/ |
29 |
108 |
15.2 |
26.8 |
94.1 |
| Treatment outcome/ |
88 |
447 |
46.1 |
19.7 |
73.0 |
| Textwords (.tw) |
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| baseline |
16 |
47 |
8.4 |
34.0 |
97.7 |
| case control$ |
3 |
9 |
1.6 |
33.3 |
99.5 |
| case series |
27 |
122 |
14.1 |
22.1 |
92.9 |
| cases |
38 |
201 |
19.9 |
18.9 |
87.7 |
| chang$ |
51 |
297 |
26.7 |
17.2 |
81.5 |
| cohort |
8 |
19 |
4.2 |
42.1 |
99.2 |
| compar$ or compara$ |
90 |
287 |
47.1 |
31.4 |
85.2 |
| consecutive$ |
51 |
142 |
26.7 |
35.9 |
93.2 |
| evaluat$ |
96 |
425 |
50.3 |
22.6 |
75.3 |
| follow$ |
50 |
259 |
26.2 |
19.3 |
84.3 |
| non compara$ or noncompara$ |
13 |
78 |
6.8 |
16.7 |
95.1 |
| non random$ or nonrandom$ |
19 |
46 |
9.9 |
41.3 |
98.0 |
| observational |
3 |
20 |
1.6 |
15.0 |
98.7 |
| postoperat$ or post operat$ |
91 |
494 |
47.6 |
18.4 |
69.7 |
| preoperat$ or pre operat$ |
101 |
418 |
52.9 |
24.2 |
76.2 |
| prospective$ |
56 |
195 |
29.3 |
28.7 |
89.5 |
| retrospective$ |
61 |
223 |
31.9 |
27.3 |
87.8 |
| reviewed |
20 |
66 |
10.5 |
30.3 |
96.5 |
| EMTREE and/or Textword (.mp) |
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| cohort$ |
8 |
21 |
4.2 |
38.1 |
99.0 |
| compare$ or compara$ |
90 |
297 |
47.1 |
30.3 |
84.4 |
| follow$ |
61 |
325 |
31.9 |
18.8 |
80.1 |
| prospective$ |
57 |
200 |
29.8 |
28.5 |
89.2 |
| retrospective$ |
64 |
233 |
33.5 |
27.5 |
87.3 |
| postoperat$ or post operat$ |
123 |
827 |
64.4 |
14.9 |
47.1 |
| preoperat$ or pre operat$ |
106 |
491 |
55.5 |
21.6 |
71.1 |
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Key / EMTREE term tw Text word(s) from title and/or abstract fields mp Term from EMTREE 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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