Revised January, 2005
The Clinical Queries search strategies have been updated based on new evidence from Haynes et al. The new strategies have better performance than their predecessors.
Details of methods appear in the references below.
References
Wilczynski NL, McKibbon KA, Haynes RB. Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: calibration of the hand search of the literature. Medinfo. 2001;10(Pt 1):390-3. PMID: 11604770
Wilczynski NC, Haynes RB for the HEDGES Study Team. Robustness of empirical search strategies for clinical content in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Annu Symp 2002;904-8. PMID: 12463956
Wong SSL, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB, Ramkissoonsingh R for the Hedges Team. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting sound clinical prediction studies in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Annu Symp 2003;:728-32. PMID: 14728269
Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB for the Hedges Team. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound causation studies in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Annu Symp 2003;:719-23. PMID: 14728267
Bhandari M, Montori V, Devereaux PJ, Wilczynski N, Morgan D, Haynes RB for the Hedges Team. Doubling the impact: publication of systematic review articles in orthopaedic journals. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2004 May;86-A(5):1012-6. PMID: 15118046
Montori V, Devereaux PJ, Wilczynski N, Morgan D, Haynes RB for the Hedges Team. for the Hedges Team. Systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study of location and citation counts. BMC Med; 2003 Nov 24;1(1):2. PMID: 14633274
Wong SSL, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically relevant qualitative studies in MEDLINE. Medinfo. 2004;2004:311-6. PMID: 15360825
Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB for the Hedges Team. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound prognostic studies in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. BMC Med. 2004 Jun 09;2(1):23. PMID:15189561
Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB, Lavis JN, Ramkissoonsingh R, Arnold-Oatley A, for the HSR Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for detecting health services research studies in MEDLINE. CMAJ. 2004 Nov 9;171(10):1179-85. PMID: 15534310
Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Walter SD, Werre SR. Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of treatment from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ. 2005 May 13; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 15894554 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Haynes RB, Wilczynski NC for the Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of diagnosis from MEDLINE: analytical survey. BMJ. 2004 May 1;328(7447):1040. Epub 2004 Apr 08. PMID: 15073027
Montori VM, Wilczynski NL, Morgan D, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ. 2005 Jan 8;330(7482):68. Epub 2004 Dec 24. PMID: 15619601