Searching for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews on exercise. A descriptive study

Grande, Antônio José; Hoffmann, Tammy; Glasziou, Paul

doi:10.1590/1516-3180.2013.8040011

“…One group included articles that conduct systematic reviews using a variety of online databases. These covered a wide variety of therapies, including medications, brachytherapy, exercise, nutrition, and ophthalmological treatments [101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108]. Another group analyzed various trends in publications, such as how researchers access the literature, extent to which studies comply with registration and reporting requirements, reasons for study termination, transparency regarding sponsorship and conflicts of interest, and inclusion of patient-reported outcomes [109,110,[111][112][113][114][115].…”

Section: Analyzing Study Publicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Research Informatics: Supporting the Research Study Lifecycle

Johnson¹

2017

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SummaryObjectives: The primary goal of this review is to summarize significant developments in the field of Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) over the years [2015][2016]. The secondary goal is to contribute to a deeper understanding of CRI as a field, through the development of a strategy for searching and classifying CRI publications. Methods: A search strategy was developed to query the PubMed database, using medical subject headings to both select and exclude articles, and filtering publications by date and other characteristics. A manual review classified publications using stages in the "research study lifecycle", with key stages that include study definition, participant enrollment, data management, data analysis, and results dissemination. Results: The search strategy generated 510 publications. The manual classification identified 125 publications as relevant to CRI, which were classified into seven different stages of the research lifecycle, and one additional class that pertained to multiple stages, referring to general infrastructure or standards. Important cross-cutting themes included new applications of electronic media (Internet, social media, mobile devices), standardization of data and procedures, and increased automation through the use of data mining and big data methods. Conclusions: The review revealed increased interest and support for CRI in large-scale projects across institutions, regionally, nationally, and internationally. A search strategy based on medical subject headings can find many relevant papers, but a large number of non-relevant papers need to be detected using text words which pertain to closely related fields such as computational statistics and clinical informatics. The research lifecycle was useful as a classification scheme by highlighting the relevance to the users of clinical research informatics solutions.

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“…One group included articles that conduct systematic reviews using a variety of online databases. These covered a wide variety of therapies, including medications, brachytherapy, exercise, nutrition, and ophthalmological treatments [101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108]. Another group analyzed various trends in publications, such as how researchers access the literature, extent to which studies comply with registration and reporting requirements, reasons for study termination, transparency regarding sponsorship and conflicts of interest, and inclusion of patient-reported outcomes [109,110,[111][112][113][114][115].…”

Section: Analyzing Study Publicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Research Informatics: Supporting the Research Study Lifecycle

Johnson¹

2017

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SummaryObjectives: The primary goal of this review is to summarize significant developments in the field of Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) over the years [2015][2016]. The secondary goal is to contribute to a deeper understanding of CRI as a field, through the development of a strategy for searching and classifying CRI publications. Methods: A search strategy was developed to query the PubMed database, using medical subject headings to both select and exclude articles, and filtering publications by date and other characteristics. A manual review classified publications using stages in the "research study lifecycle", with key stages that include study definition, participant enrollment, data management, data analysis, and results dissemination. Results: The search strategy generated 510 publications. The manual classification identified 125 publications as relevant to CRI, which were classified into seven different stages of the research lifecycle, and one additional class that pertained to multiple stages, referring to general infrastructure or standards. Important cross-cutting themes included new applications of electronic media (Internet, social media, mobile devices), standardization of data and procedures, and increased automation through the use of data mining and big data methods. Conclusions: The review revealed increased interest and support for CRI in large-scale projects across institutions, regionally, nationally, and internationally. A search strategy based on medical subject headings can find many relevant papers, but a large number of non-relevant papers need to be detected using text words which pertain to closely related fields such as computational statistics and clinical informatics. The research lifecycle was useful as a classification scheme by highlighting the relevance to the users of clinical research informatics solutions.

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Literature searching methods or guidance and their application to public health topics: A narrative review

Heath

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Levay

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Tuvey

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2021

Health Info Libraries J

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Background: Information specialists conducting searches for systematic reviews need to consider key questions around which and how many sources to search. This is particularly important for public health topics where evidence may be found in diverse sources. Objectives:The objective of this review is to give an overview of recent studies on information retrieval guidance and methods that could be applied to public health evidence and used to guide future searches. Methods: A literature search was performed in core databases and supplemented by browsing health information journals and citation searching. Results were sifted and reviewed. Results: Seventy-two papers were found and grouped into themes covering sources and search techniques. Public health topics were poorly covered in this literature. Discussion: Many researchers follow the recommendations to search multiple databases. The review topic influences decisions about sources. Additional sources covering grey literature eliminate bias but are time-consuming and difficult to search systematically. Public health searching is complex, often requiring searches in multidisciplinary sources and using additional methods.Conclusions: Search planning is advisable to enable decisions about which and how many sources to search. This could improve with more work on modelling search scenarios, particularly in public health topics, to examine where publications were found and guide future research.

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Searching for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews on exercise. A descriptive study

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Clinical Research Informatics: Supporting the Research Study Lifecycle

Clinical Research Informatics: Supporting the Research Study Lifecycle

Clinical Research Informatics: Supporting the Research Study Lifecycle

Literature searching methods or guidance and their application to public health topics: A narrative review

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