Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Optimal search strategies for identifying mental health content in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Optimal search strategies for identifying mental health content in MEDLINE an analytic survey Nancy L Wilczynski 1 R Brian Haynes1 2 and Team Hedges Address department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster University Health Sciences Centre 1200 Main Street West Hamilton Ontario L8N 3Z5 Canada and department of Medicine McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Health Sciences Centre 1200 Main Street West Hamilton Ontario L8N 3Z5 Canada Email NancyL Wilczynski - wilczyn@ R Brian Haynes - bhaynes@ Team Hedges - wilczyn@ Corresponding author Published 23 March 2006 Received 14 September 2005 Accepted 23 March 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry2006 5 4 doi 1744-859X-5-4 r This article is available from http content 5 1 4 2006Wilczynski et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective General practitioners mental health practitioners and researchers wishing to retrieve the best current research evidence in the content area of mental health may have a difficult time when searching large electronic databases such as MEDLINE. When MEDLINE is searched unaided key articles are often missed while retrieving many articles that are irrelevant to the search. The objectives of this study were to develop optimal search strategies to detect articles with mental health content and to determine the effect of combining mental health content search strategies with methodologic search strategies calibrated to detect the best studies of treatment. Method An analytic survey was conducted comparing hand searches of 29 journals with retrievals from .
