Health information and libraries journal
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Review
Consistency and accuracy of indexing systematic review articles and meta-analyses in medline.
Systematic review articles support the advance of science and translation of research evidence into healthcare practice. Inaccurate retrieval from medline could limit access to reviews. ⋯ Inaccuracies in indexing systematic reviews and meta-analyses in medline can be partly overcome by a 5-term search strategy. Introducing a publication type for systematic reviews of the literature could improve retrieval performance.
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People search medline for trials of healthcare interventions for clinical decisions, or to produce systematic reviews, practice guidelines, or technology assessments. Finding all relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with little extraneous material is challenging. ⋯ Many RCT filters exist (n = 38). These comparative data can direct the choice of an RCT filter.