Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Systematic review filter for ProQuest PsycInfo

Looking for systematic reviews, I needed a systematic review filter for ProQuest PsycInfo.  

I had searched other databases for the same project and used SIGN's filters, but SIGN did not have one for PsycInfo and the other PsycInfo ones I had found were for other interfaces.


The idea behind using a filter, and not relying on database publication type limits, is that not every SR is indexed as one, so the filters look for terminology that is common in SRs to identify items that are SRs.


I adapted the University of Texas School of Public Health filter (found via the ISSG Search Filters Resource) for ProQuest.


This was what I came up with:



1. TI,AB,IF((comprehensive* OR integrative OR systematic*) NEAR/3 (bibliographic* OR review* OR literature))

2. TI,AB,IF((meta-analy* or metaanaly* or "research synthesis" or ((information or data) NEAR/3 synthesis) or (data NEAR/2 extract*)))

3. TI,AB,IF(review NEAR/5 (rationale or evidence)) and ME("Literature Review")

4. AB(cinahl or cinhal or (cochrane NEAR/3 trial*) or embase or medline or psyclit or psychlit or pubmed or scopus or "sociological abstracts" or "web of science")

5. ME("systematic review" or "meta analysis")

6. 1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5

The UTSPH filter is one line, but I got muddled with brackets and found it easier to have several lines...   Line 3 does not include the word PsycInfo because (as I discovered!) every reference in the database has that word in the abstract...  

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