Developing search strategies in Medline on the occupational origin of diseases

Schaafsma, Frederieke; Hulshof, Carel; Verbeek, Jos; Bos, Jurriaan; Dyserinck, Heleen; Dijk, Frank van

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“…A number of projects was dealing with search strategies and is published already [12][13][14][15] . One project evaluated AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines for REsearch and Evaluation) as a quality assessment system for practice guidelines 16) .…”

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“…Concrete health care activities such as a diagnostic medical examination might be wanted by a worker, or a workers' council might like to discuss with experts the need for a screening programme. Then OH professionals are needed with practical experience and Industrial Health 2007, 45, [13][14][15][16][17][18] able to transfer and interpret scientific knowledge.…”

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Knowledge Infrastructure Needed for Occupational Healtha

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Expertise on work and health topics is the foundation for the added value of occupational health (OH) professionals to the health of the working population. Professionals should therefore practice in accordance with high quality standards and latest evidence. As adequate knowledge management and a supportive knowledge infrastructure is needed, OH professionals can discuss opportunities to strengthen both. Occupational health services ought to offer ICT facilities, stimulate organizational conditions and human resource development to implement evidence-based practice. On national level a portal including a virtual library, tailor-made for occupational health, providing access to high quality websites, abstracts and full text articles and books, is a backbone for further developments. Expert groups on various topics can function as

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“…Preliminary samples of abstracts were collected for all terms identified on the basis of findings from a single available study on PubMed searches regarding occupational etiology [Schaafsma et al, 2006], analysis of MeSH entry terms, the authors' experience and brainstorming. After extensive evaluation (data not shown), 61 terms were included in our study as free-search (see Table I).…”

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“…In the Occupational Medicine field, search strategies have been proposed for the retrieval of intervention studies or etiological research papers [Verbeek et al, 2005;Haafkens et al, 2006;Schaafsma et al, 2006;Mattioli et al, 2010]. In addition, a controlled trial showed that evidence-based search strategies may enhance the effectiveness of the consultation of PubMed [Schaafsma et al, 2007].…”

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PubMed search strings for the study of agricultural workers' diseases

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Background Several optimized search strategies have been developed in Medicine, and more recently in Occupational Medicine. The aim of this study was to identify efficient PubMed search strategies to retrieve articles regarding putative occupational determinants of agricultural workers' diseases. Methods We selected the Medical Subjects Heading (MeSH) term agricultural workers' diseases and six MeSH terms describing farm work (agriculture, agrochemicals NOT pesticides, animal husbandry, pesticides, rural health, rural population) alongside 61 other promising terms. We estimated proportions of articles containing potentially pertinent information regarding occupational etiology to formulate two search strategies (one "more specific," one "more sensitive"). We applied these strategies to retrieve information on the possible occupational etiology among agricultural workers of kidney cancer, knee osteoarthritis, and multiple sclerosis. We evaluated the number of needed to read (NNR) abstracts to identify one potentially pertinent article in the context of these pathologies. Results The "more specific" search string was based on the combination of terms that yielded the highest proportion (40%) of potentially pertinent abstracts. The "more sensitive" string was based on use of broader search fields and additional coverage provided by other search terms under study. Using the "more specific" string, the NNR to find one potentially pertinent article were: 1.1 for kidney cancer; 1.4 for knee osteoarthritis; 1.2 for multiple sclerosis. Using the sensitive strategy, the NNR were 1.4, 3.6, and 6.3, respectively. Conclusion The proposed strings could help health care professionals explore putative occupational etiology for agricultural workers' diseases (even if not generally thought to be work related). Am. J. Ind. Med. 56:1473Med. 56: -1481Med. 56: , 2015. KEY WORDS: agricultural workers' diseases; bibliometrics; PubMed, utilization; rural health; rural populationThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivs License,which permits use anddistribution in any medium,provided the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…Therefore, optimized search strategies have to be adopted to maximize the impact of searching in terms of quality and time [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. We recently formulated the first search strings in endocrinology to investigate pituitary disorders [16].…”

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Identification of risk conditions for the development of adrenal disorders: how optimized PubMed search strategies makes the difference

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The exponential growth of scientific literature available through electronic databases (namely PubMed) has increased the chance of finding interesting articles. At the same time, search has become more complicated, time consuming, and at risk of missing important information. Therefore, optimized strategies have to be adopted to maximize searching impact. The aim of this study was to formulate efficient strings to search PubMed for etiologic associations between adrenal disorders (ADs) and other conditions. A comprehensive list of terms identifying endogenous conditions primarily affecting adrenals was compiled. An ad hoc analysis was performed to find the best way to express each term in order to find the highest number of potentially pertinent articles in PubMed. A predefined number of retrieved abstracts were read to assess their association with ADs' etiology. A more sensitive (providing the largest literature coverage) and a more specific (including only those terms retrieving[40 % of potentially pertinent articles) string were formulated. Various researches were performed to assess strings' ability to identify articles of interest in comparison with non-optimized literature searches. We formulated optimized, ready applicable tools for the identification of the literature assessing etiologic associations in the field of ADs using PubMed, and demonstrated the advantages deriving from their application. Detailed description of the methodological process is also provided, so that this work can easily be translated to other fields of practice.

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Developing search strategies in Medline on the occupational origin of diseases

Cited by 26 publications

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Knowledge Infrastructure Needed for Occupational Healtha

Knowledge Infrastructure Needed for Occupational Healtha

PubMed search strings for the study of agricultural workers' diseases

Identification of risk conditions for the development of adrenal disorders: how optimized PubMed search strategies makes the difference

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