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Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews
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Ovid Medline (Advanced Search):
Limits Section on main search page---> check off Top Reviews (Cochrane)
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Clinical Queries Section--> Search using Systematic Reviews search box
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Hedge for Systematic Reviews
The following search strategy will enable you to extract systematic reviews from Ovid Medline. Enter this search strategy manually into Ovid Medline (Advanced Search) and save the strategy (this is possible only when you login under your University of Alberta CCID). Execute the search (i.e., "Open Saved Search") whenever you wish to extract systematic reviews of a topic, then search for the topic as you would search for other research articles in that domain.Please refer to the other Ovid Medline strategies on this web site for articles on Therapy/Prevention, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Harm/Etiology. Develop your strategy and execute it on Ovid Medline. Combine the results with your previously run hedge for systematic reviews. Note that most systematic reviews so far have been prepared for studies of therapy or prevention.