So many filters, so little time: the development of a search filter appraisal checklist

The authors developed a tool to assess the quality of search filters designed to retrieve records for studies with specific research designs (e.g., diagnostic studies). The UK InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group (ISSG), a group of experienced health care information specialists, review...

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Vydáno v:Journal of the Medical Library Association Ročník 96; číslo 4; s. 356 - 361
Hlavní autoři: Glanville, Julie, Bayliss, Sue, Booth, Andrew, Dundar, Yenal, Fernandes, Hasina, Fleeman, Nigel David, Foster, Louise, Fraser, Cynthia, Fry-Smith, Anne, Golder, Su, Lefebvre, Carol, Miller, Caroline, Paisley, Suzy, Payne, Liz, Price, Alison, Welch, Karen
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chicago, IL Medical Library Association 01.10.2008
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Témata:
Abstracting and Indexing - methods
Appraisal
Bibliography of Medicine
Checklists
Design
Evaluation
Exact sciences and technology
Health sciences
Health services
Humans
Information
Information and communication sciences
Information processing and retrieval
Information retrieval. Man machine relationship
Information science. Documentation
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Internet filtering software
Librarians
Medical librarians
Medical research
Meetings
Methodology
Online health care information services
Online information retrieval
Periodicals as Topic
Practice
Quality standards
Research design
Research methodology
Research process. Evaluation
Safety and security measures
Sciences and techniques of general use
Searches
Sensitivity and Specificity
Specialists
Studies
Subject Headings
Suitability
Technological change
Terminology as Topic
United Kingdom
User aids
Websites
United Kingdom
Evaluation
Special library
Information retrieval
Information system
ISSN:1536-5050, 1558-9439, 1558-9439
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Shrnutí:The authors developed a tool to assess the quality of search filters designed to retrieve records for studies with specific research designs (e.g., diagnostic studies). The UK InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group (ISSG), a group of experienced health care information specialists, reviewed the literature to evaluate existing search filter appraisal tools and determined that existing tools were inadequate for their needs. The group held consensus meetings to develop a new filter appraisal tool consisting of a search filter appraisal checklist and a structured abstract. ISSG members tested the final checklist using three published search filters. The detailed ISSG Search Filter Appraisal Checklist captures relevance criteria and methods used to develop and test search filters. The checklist includes categorical and descriptive responses and is accompanied by a structured abstract that provides a summary of key quality features of a filter. The checklist is a comprehensive appraisal tool that can assist health sciences librarians and others in choosing search filters. The checklist reports filter design methods and search performance measures, such as sensitivity and precision. The checklist can also aid filter developers by indicating information on core methods that should be reported to help assess filter suitability. The generalizability of the checklist for non-methods filters remains to be explored.
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ISSN:1536-5050
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1558-9439
DOI:10.3163/1536-5050.96.4.011