The Embase UK filter: validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Embase. (25th March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Embase UK filter: validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Embase. (25th March 2019)
- Main Title:
- The Embase UK filter: validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Embase
- Authors:
- Ayiku, Lynda
Levay, Paul
Hudson, Thomas
Craven, Jenny
Finnegan, Amy
Adams, Rachel
Barrett, Elizabeth - Abstract:
- Abstract: Background: The authors developed a validated geographic search filter to retrieve research about the United Kingdom (UK) from OVID Embase. It was created to be used alongside their previously published OVID MEDLINE UK filter in systematic literature searches for context‐sensitive topics. Objectives: To develop a validated geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Embase. Methods: The Embase UK filter was translated from the MEDLINE UK filter. A gold standard set of references was generated using the relative recall method. The set contained references to publications about the UK that had informed National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance and it was used to validate the filter. Recall, precision and number‐needed‐to‐read (NNR) were calculated using a case study. Results: The validated Embase UK filter demonstrated 99.8% recall against the references with UK identifiers in the gold standard set. In the case study, the Embase UK filter demonstrated 98.5% recall, 7.6% precision and a NNR of 13. Conclusion: The Embase UK filter can be used alongside the MEDLINE UK filter. The filters have the potential to save time and associated resource costs when they are used for context‐sensitive topics that require research about UK settings.
- Is Part Of:
- Health information and libraries journal. Volume 36:Number 2(2019:Jun.)
- Journal:
- Health information and libraries journal
- Issue:
- Volume 36:Number 2(2019:Jun.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 36, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0036-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 121
- Page End:
- 133
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-25
- Subjects:
- database searching -- Embase -- Great Britain -- information retrieval -- United Kingdom
Medical libraries -- Periodicals
Public health libraries -- Periodicals
Life sciences libraries -- Periodicals
Medical libraries -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
Public health libraries -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
Information science -- Periodicals
026.61094105 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1471-1842 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/hir.12252 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1471-1834
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