Systematic reviews: significance of search strategy

Improving the Search Strategy of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

Dear Editor-in-Chief; International Journal of Community Based Nursing and Midwifery The International Journal of Community Based Nursing and Midwifery published an article entitled: “Health related quality of life in Iranian elderly citizens: A systematic review and metaanalysis” in its volume 5, issue 2.1 Thanks to the authors of this paper, we decided to point out some of our concerns about ...

Taking advantage of the explosion of systematic reviews: an efficient MEDLINE search strategy.

CONTEXT Systematic reviews of the literature are an important resource for clinicians. Unfortunately, the few published strategies for identifying these articles involve MEDLINE interfaces not widely available outside of academic medicine. In addition, the performance of these strategies is unknown. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a search strategy for identifying systematic reviews by usin...

Worldwide inequality in production of systematic reviews

Background: Investment in science is vital for the development and well-being of societies. This study aims to assess the scientific productivity of countries by quantifying their publication of systematic reviews taking the gross national income per capita (GNIPC) into account. Methods: Medline and ISI Web of Science were searched for systematic reviews published between 1st January 2006 an...

Reference-based search strategies in systematic reviews

A Systematic Search Strategy for Product Configuration

Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) paradigm has proven highly successful in product configuration, particularly for build-to-order products, by assigning component types to all components without violating any constraints. For engineer-to-order products, however, product configuration requires assigning design parameters to each component as well. Hence, it often involves numeric variables, ...