Searching for high-quality articles about intervention studies in occupational health – what is really missed when using only the Medline database?

Rollin, Laétitia; Darmoni, Stéfan Jacques; Caillard, J. F.; Géhanno, Jean-François

doi:10.5271/sjweh.3082

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“…The proposed PubMed search strings are not readily applicable, also because of the wide use of asterisks and tags. However, a recent article by Rollin et al [2010] states that high quality papers, included in Cochrane Reviews, could be retrieved in 90% of the cases by PubMed. Changes in research and reporting practices (e.g., choice of key words) over time [Wilczynski and Haynes, 2003] will inevitably affect the retrievability of future literature.…”

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“…However, questions may arise on the quality of articles missed by careful consultation of PubMed. Rollin et al [2010] recently estimated that the recall ratio of Medline for high-quality intervention studies is close to 90%. Based on their findings, the authors concluded that limiting the research of pertinent literature to Medline only is more cost-effective than previously thought and it represents a valuable tool for answering daily practice questions.…”

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PubMed search strings for the study of agricultural workers' diseases

Mattioli¹,

Gori²,

Gregori³

et al. 2013

American J Industrial Med

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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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PubMed search strings for the study of agricultural workers' diseases

Mattioli¹,

Gori²,

Gregori³

et al. 2013

American J Industrial Med

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“…A review of interventions on encouraging walking and cycling concluded that 4 of the 69 included publications came from "first line health databases", compared to 8 from social science sources and 33 from a topic-specific transport database (Ogilvie, Hamilton, Egan, & Petticrew, 2005). Further evidence on the value of searching beyond MEDLINE is available on a number of topics relevant to public health, including: occupational health (Rollin, Darmoni, Caillard, & Gehanno, 2010), social welfare (Taylor, Wylie, Dempster, & Donnelly, 2007), maternal health (Betran, Say, Gulmezoglu, Allen, & Hampson, 2005), mental health (Lohonen, Isohanni, Nieminen, & Miettunen, 2010), mental illness (Brettle & Long, 2001), psychiatry (Mcdonald, Taylor, & Adams, 1999), and injury prevention (Lawrence, 2008).…”

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The Contributions of MEDLINE, Other Bibliographic Databases and Various Search Techniques to NICE Public Health Guidance

Levay

Raynor

Tuvey

2015

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Objective -To make recommendations for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the factors to consider when choosing databases and search techniques when producing systematic reviews to support public health guidance development.Methods -Retrospective analysis of how the publications included in systematic reviews commissioned by NICE on obesity, spatial planning, and tuberculosis were retrieved. The Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2015, 10.1 51 included publications were checked to see if they were found from searching MEDLINE, another database or through other search techniques.Results -MEDLINE contributed 24.2% of the publications included in the obesity review, none of the publications in the spatial planning review and 72% of those in the tuberculosis review. Other databases accounted for 9.1% of included publications in obesity, 20% in spatial planning and 4% in tuberculosis. Non-database methods provided 42.4% of the included publications in the obesity review, compared to 5% in the spatial planning review and 24% in the tuberculosis review. It was not possible to establish retrospectively how 24.2% of the publications in the obesity review and 75% in the spatial planning review were found.Conclusions -Topic-specific databases and non-database search techniques were useful for tailoring the resources to the review questions. The value of MEDLINE in these reviews was affected by the degree of overlap with clinical topics, the domain of public health, and the need to find grey literature. The factors that NICE considers when planning a systematic search are the multidisciplinary nature of public health and the different types of evidence required.

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“…The literature on MT is drawn from professionals of different disciplines that may use different words to describe the same concepts, a situation that requires an explicit approach to resolve. 7 Rollin et al 8 reported that 90% of high-quality intervention studies included in Cochrane reviews could be retrieved searching PubMed, the database managed by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). They concluded that searching PubMed only is more cost-effective than previously thought, which is a highly relevant consideration, given that this database is freely accessible.…”

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