Search Strategy Used to Create the
Systematic Reviews Subset on PubMed

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This strategy is intended to retrieve citations identified as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, guidelines, and citations to articles from journals specializing in review studies of value to clinicians. This subset can be used in a search as systematic [sb].
Example: exercise hypertension AND systematic [sb]

This subset is available on the Limits screen under "Subsets." It is also available on the Clinical Queries screen. For additional sources of strategies for systematic reviews, please see the list of related sources.

Strategy last modified January 2008.

(systematic review [ti] OR meta-analysis [pt] OR meta-analysis [ti] OR systematic literature review [ti]
OR (systematic review [tiab] AND review [pt]) OR consensus development conference [pt] OR practice guideline [pt]
OR cochrane database syst rev OR acp journal club OR health technol assess OR evid rep technol assess summ)
OR 
((evidence based[ti] OR evidence-based medicine [mh] OR best practice* [ti] OR evidence synthesis [tiab])
AND
(review [pt] OR diseases category[mh] OR behavior and behavior mechanisms [mh] OR therapeutics [mh]
OR evaluation studies[pt] OR validation studies[pt] OR guideline [pt]))
OR 
((systematic [tw] OR systematically OR critical [tiab] OR (study selection [tw]) OR (predetermined OR
inclusion AND criteri*) OR exclusion criteri* OR "main outcome measures" OR "standard of care" OR "standards of care")
AND 
(survey [tiab] OR surveys [tiab] OR overview* OR review [tiab] OR reviews [tiab] OR search* OR handsearch
OR analysis [tiab] OR critique [tiab] OR appraisal OR (reduction AND risk AND (death OR recurrence))) 
AND 
(literature [tiab] OR articles [tiab] OR publications [tiab] OR publication [tiab] OR bibliography [tiab]
OR bibliographies [tiab] OR published [tiab] OR unpublished OR citation OR citations OR database [tiab]
OR internet [tiab] OR textbooks [tiab] OR references OR scales [tw] OR papers [tw] OR datasets OR trials [tiab]
OR meta-analy* [tw] OR (clinical [tiab] AND studies [tiab]) OR treatment outcome)) 
NOT 
(case report [ti] OR letter [pt] OR newspaper article [pt] OR comment [pt])

Last reviewed: 29 January 2008
Last updated: 29 January 2008
First published: 01 January 2002
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