Background
Sponsored by the European Commission, the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) was set up to bring together the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Agencies across the EU, to exchange experience and develop practice as well as methodological guidelines.
One of the project outcomes has been the publication of a methodological guideline entitled, Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness. Comprehensive, systematic and helpfully readable, this publication is highly recommended to information specialists and medical librarians working on systematic review. The authoring team comes from IQWIG in Germany, NIPH in Norway and AETSA in Spain.
This Focused Search draws upon a search strategy, described in Annex 2 of the EUnetHTA methodological guideline, which retrieves references that discuss information retrieval topics. These can range from accounts of experience gained by varying user groups using search techniques to reports of interactions with specific resources, for example PubMed and Google Scholar.
Of use to librarians and information specialists keen to monitor developments in the field of information retrieval, the search can be stored in an Ovid My Workspace account and be run manually at intervals determined by the user. Alternatively, the search strategy can be set up as an AutoAlert and run daily, weekly, monthly, or following a database update, as you please. If you would like some assistance from an Ovid Trainer on how to set up this search strategy as an AutoAlert, please request an Ovid Coaching Session.
Search Stategy
(Semi-automated or data mining or (Capture adj3 recapture) or machine learning).ab,ti.
(search adj3 (strateg* or term* or filter*)).ab,ti.
(query or queries).ab,ti.
search*.ti.
or/1-4
exp "Information Storage and Retrieval"/
"Medical Subject Headings"/
"Abstracting and Indexing as Topic"/
Documentation/
reporting.ab,ti.
(bibliographic databas* or Pubmed).ab,ti.
(MeSH or controlled vocabulary or indexing).ab,ti.
or/6-12
"Review Literature as Topic"/
exp "Evidence-Based Practice"/
"Technology Assessment, Biomedical"/
or/14-16
and/5,13,17
exp *"Information Storage and Retrieval"/
4 and (16 or 19)
(Medline or PubMed).ti.
(Clinical Queries or Haynes or hedge or search).ti,ab.
and/21-22
or/18,20,23
Reviewers
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Original search produced by:
Ovid Training Team
References:
EUnetHTA JA3WP6B2-2 Authoring Team. Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness. Methodological Guidelines. Diemen (The Netherlands): EUnetHTA; 2019. Available from https://www.eunethta.eu/ or directly via the link .
Permissions: This document is published under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY-SA.)
Citation:
Ovid Customer Support, Information Retrieval Topics (AutoAlert) – Ovid MEDLINE, OvidGO! / Focused Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024. Visited: < Insert Date >.