Thursday, June 23, 2022

Cinahl strategy for finding studies from the UK

This is based on the Medline filter in Ayiku, L. et al. (2017) ‘The Medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Medline’, Health Information and Libraries Journal 34(3), pp.200-216.  That filter is discussed in another post.


I have tested it to see if it results in error messages (it does not) but it is not yet validated.  The Medline filter it is based on has been validated - see the article referenced above for details.

This Cinahl filter does not specify fields, so searches all fields.  In line S4, gb with no punctuation and g.b. with punctuation retrieve different results, so I have included both.

S1           (MH "United Kingdom+")

S2           (national health service* or nhs*)           

S3           (english not ((published or publication* or translat* or written or language* or speak* or literature or citation*) N4 english))

S4           (gb or g.b. or britain* or (british* not "british columbia") or uk or u.k. or united kingdom* or (england* not "new england") or northern ireland* or northern irish* or scotland* or scottish* or ((wales or "south wales") not "new south wales") or welsh*)    

S5           (bath or "bath's" or ((birmingham not alabama*) or ("birmingham's" not alabama*) or bradford or "bradford's" or brighton or "brighton's" or bristol or "bristol's" or carlisle* or "carlisle's" or (cambridge not (massachusetts* or boston* or harvard*)) or ("cambridge's" not (massachusetts* or boston* or harvard*)) or (canterbury not zealand*) or ("canterbury's" not zealand*) or chelmsford or "chelmsford's" or chester or "chester's" or chichester or "chichester's" or coventry or "coventry's" or derby or "derby's" or (durham not (carolina* or nc)) or ("durham's" not (carolina* or nc)) or ely or "ely's" or exeter or "exeter's" or gloucester or "gloucester's" or hereford or "hereford's" or hull or "hull's" or lancaster or "lancaster's" or leeds* or leicester or "leicester's" or (lincoln not nebraska*) or ("lincoln's" not nebraska*) or (liverpool not (new south wales* or nsw)) or ("liverpool's" not (new south wales* or nsw)) or ((london not (ontario* or ont or toronto*)) or ("london's" not (ontario* or ont or toronto*)) or manchester or "manchester's" or (newcastle not (new south wales* or nsw)) or ("newcastle's" not (new south wales* or nsw)) or norwich or "norwich's" or nottingham or "nottingham's" or oxford or "oxford's" or peterborough or "peterborough's" or plymouth or "plymouth's" or portsmouth or "portsmouth's" or preston or "preston's" or ripon or "ripon's" or salford or "salford's" or salisbury or "salisbury's" or sheffield or "sheffield's" or southampton or "southampton's" or st albans or stoke or "stoke's" or sunderland or "sunderland's" or truro or "truro's" or wakefield or "wakefield's" or wells or westminster or "westminster's" or winchester or "winchester's" or wolverhampton or "wolverhampton's" or (worcester not (massachusetts* or boston* or harvard*)) or ("worcester's" not (massachusetts* or boston* or harvard*)) or (york not ("new york*" or ny or ontario* or ont or toronto*)) or ("york's" not ("new york*" or ny or ontario* or ont or toronto*)))))

S6           (bangor or "bangor's" or cardiff or "cardiff's" or newport or "newport's" or st asaph or "st asaph's" or st davids or swansea or "swansea's")

S7           (aberdeen or "aberdeen's" or dundee or "dundee's" or edinburgh or "edinburgh's" or glasgow or "glasgow's" or inverness or (perth not australia*) or ("perth's" not australia*) or stirling or "stirling's")

S8           (armagh or "armagh's" or belfast or "belfast's" or lisburn or "lisburn's" or londonderry or "londonderry's" or derry or "derry's" or newry or "newry's")

S9           S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4 OR S5 OR S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9

S10         ((MH “Africa+”) OR (MH “America+”) OR (MH “Antarctic Regions”) OR (MH “Arctic Regions”) OR (MH “Asia+”) OR (MH “Australia+”) OR (MH “Pacific Islands+”)) NOT ((MH (“United Kingdom+”) OR (MH (Europe+”))

S11         S9 NOT S10


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