| Ref ID | 404 |
| First Author | P. Whiting |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2008 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18313560/ |
| Keywords |
• Diagnostic • Searching |
| Problem(s) |
• Insufficient literature searches |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Small analytical study |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Aim | To assess eight systematic reviews of test accuracy derived from seven research projects, for which the information service staff at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York had carried out the searches, published between 2002-2008. |
| Level of Investigation | Analytical |
| Summary of Findings | No search identified all studies in any gold standard set. Over 20% of studies in the gold standard sets were not identified by searching MEDLINE. Six studies on LILACS were not on any other database. Eight gold standard studies were not included in any of the databases, and a further 22 were not identified by the electronic search strategies. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 8 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 8 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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