Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Systematic review search filter for Ebsco APA PsycInfo

I needed one of these but couldn't find one.   I did find a multi-database filter for Ovid, including APA PsycInfo, from Canada's Drug Agency, CADTH, so modified it to use in EbscoHost.

I could find no relevant publication types to match line 1 of the original filter, so replaced it with a modification of line 17, and then omitted line 17, so my filter has 22 and not 23 lines.    I changed Ovid's adj3 into N2 (and changed any other adjn in the same way).

This is the result.   I have not validated or tested this filter, although the original one is labelled as having had "pragmatic" testing.


S1 MR (systematic review or meta analysis)

S2 DE "systematic review" OR DE "meta analysis"

S3 ((systematic* N2 (review* or overview*)) or (methodologic* N2 (review* or overview*)))

S4 ((quantitative N2 (review* or overview* or synthes*)) or (research N2 (integrati* or overview*)))

S5 ((integrative N2 (review* or overview*)) or (collaborative N2 (review* or overview*)) or (pool* N2 analy*))

S6 (data synthes* or data extraction* or data abstraction*)

S7 (handsearch* or hand search*)

S8 (mantel haenszel or peto or der simonian or dersimonian or fixed effect* or latin square*)

S9 (met analy* or metanaly* or technology assessment* or HTA or HTAs or technology overview* or technology appraisal*)

S10 (meta regression* or metaregression*)

S11 (meta-analy* or metaanaly* or systematic review* or biomedical technology assessment* or bio-medical technology assessment*)

S12 (medline or cochrane or pubmed or medlars or embase or cinahl)

S13 (cochrane or (health N1 technology assessment) or evidence report)

S14 (comparative N2 (efficacy or effectiveness))

S15 (outcomes research or relative effectiveness)

S16 ((indirect or indirect treatment or mixed-treatment or bayesian) N2 comparison*)

S17 (multi* N2 treatment N2 comparison*)

S18 (mixed N2 treatment N2 (meta-analy* or metaanaly*))

S19 umbrella review*

S20 (multi* N1 paramet* N1 evidence N1 synthesis)

S21 (multiparamet* N1 evidence N1 synthesis)

S22 (multi-paramet* N1 evidence N1 synthesis)

S23 S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4 OR S5 OR S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9 OR S10 OR S11 OR S12 OR S13 OR S14 OR S15 OR S16 OR S17 OR S18 OR S19 OR S20 OR S21 OR S22

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