Search Strategy Used to Create the
Systematic Reviews Subset on PubMed

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This strategy is intended to retrieve citations identified as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, guidelines, and citations to articles from journals specializing in review studies of value to clinicians. This subset can be used in a search as systematic [sb].
Example: exercise hypertension AND systematic [sb]

This subset is available on the Limits screen under "Subsets." It is also available on the Clinical Queries screen. For additional sources of strategies for systematic reviews, please see the list of related sources.

Strategy last modified June 2008.

(systematic review [ti] OR meta-analysis [pt] OR meta-analysis [ti] OR systematic literature review [ti] OR 
(systematic review [tiab] AND review [pt]) OR consensus development conference [pt] OR 
practice guideline [pt] OR cochrane database syst rev [ta] OR acp journal club [ta] OR 
health technol assess [ta] OR evid rep technol assess summ [ta]) 
OR 
((evidence based[ti] OR evidence-based medicine [mh] OR best practice* [ti] OR evidence synthesis [tiab])
AND
(review [pt] OR diseases category[mh] OR behavior and behavior mechanisms [mh] OR therapeutics [mh] OR 
evaluation studies[pt] OR validation studies[pt] OR guideline [pt]))
OR 
((systematic [tw] OR systematically [tw] OR critical [tiab] OR (study selection [tw]) OR 
(predetermined [tw] OR inclusion [tw] AND criteri* [tw]) OR exclusion criteri* [tw] OR main outcome measures [tw] OR 
standard of care [tw] OR standards of care [tw]) 
AND 
(survey [tiab] OR surveys [tiab] OR overview* [tw] OR review [tiab] OR reviews [tiab] OR search* [tw] OR 
handsearch [tw] OR analysis [tiab] OR critique [tiab] OR appraisal [tw] OR 
(reduction [tw]AND (risk [mh] OR risk [tw]) AND (death OR recurrence))) 
AND 
(literature [tiab] OR articles [tiab] OR publications [tiab] OR publication [tiab] OR 
bibliography [tiab] OR bibliographies [tiab] OR published [tiab] OR 
unpublished [tw] OR citation [tw] OR citations [tw] OR database [tiab] OR internet [tiab] OR textbooks [tiab] OR 
references [tw] OR scales [tw] OR papers [tw] OR datasets [tw] OR trials [tiab] OR meta-analy* [tw] OR 
(clinical [tiab] AND studies [tiab]) OR treatment outcome [mh] OR treatment outcome [tw])) 
NOT 
(letter [pt] OR newspaper article [pt] OR comment [pt])

Last reviewed: 26 June 2008
Last updated: 26 June 2008
First published: 01 January 2002
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