Background: Evidence from health services research (HSR) is currently thinly spread through
many journals, making it difficult for health services researchers, managers and policy-…

Background Economic evaluations in the medical literature compare competing diagnosis
or treatment methods for their use of resources and their expected outcomes. The best …

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 …

Background As the knowledge translation and comparative effectiveness research agendas
gain momentum, we can expect more evidence on which to base quality improvement (QI) …

Background The identification of health services research in databases such as PubMed/Medline
is a cumbersome task. This task becomes even more difficult if the field of interest …

Background With the information explosion, the retrieval of the best clinical evidence from
large, general purpose, bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE can be difficult. Both …

Background In order to support occupational health practitioners, researchers, and experts (clinical
librarians, guideline developers) who search the scientific literature in PubMed (…

Purpose This study aims to report on the effectiveness of various search strategies and
keywords to find studies on work-related psychosocial risk factors (PRF) in the PubMed …

Background Publication and related biases (including publication bias, time-lag bias,
outcome reporting bias and p-hacking) have been well documented in clinical research, but …

We developed search strategies for detecting sound articles on causation and prognosis in
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) in the year 2000. An …