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| National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) | |
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Category |
Optimized For |
Broad/ Narrow |
PubMed Equivalent |
|
appropriateness |
sensitive/broad |
100%/97% |
inappropriate[tiab] OR records[mh] |
|
specific/narrow |
60%/99.8% |
appropriateness[tiab] |
|
|
process assessment |
sensitive/broad |
98%/67% |
health services administration[mh] OR therapy[sh:noexp] OR adjusted[tiab] |
|
specific/narrow |
52%/93% |
practice*[tiab] OR adjusted[tiab] |
|
|
outcome assessment |
sensitive/broad |
96%/53% |
health services administration[mh] OR epidemiologic studies[mh] OR epidemiology[sh] |
|
specific/narrow |
51%/93% |
survival[tiab] OR mortality[mh] |
|
|
costs |
sensitive/broad |
96%/93% |
cost[tiab] OR costs[tiab] OR costs and cost analysis[mh] OR ec[sh] |
|
specific/narrow |
59%/99% |
cost effectiveness*[tiab] OR saves[tiab] OR savings[tiab] OR saved[tiab] OR saver[tiab] OR savers[tiab] OR save[ti] OR saving[ti] OR (save[tw] OR saving[tw]) AND (ec[sh] OR economic OR dollar* OR money OR cost OR costs OR costing OR socioeconomic OR inexpensive OR efficiency OR financ* OR treatment outcome) |
|
|
economics |
sensitive/broad |
100%/97% |
costs[tiab] OR cost effective[tiab] OR economic[tiab] |
|
specific/narrow |
74%/99% |
cost effective[tiab] OR sensitivity analys*[tiab] OR cost effectiveness[tiab] |
|
|
qualitative studies |
sensitive/broad |
95%/70% |
interview*[tiab] OR psychology[sh:noexp] OR health services administration[mh] |
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specific/narrow |
61%/99% |
qualitative[tiab] OR themes[tiab] |
Sensitive (broad) and specific (narrow) searches and approximate equivalent in the PubMed query language as recommended in Wilczynski NL et al and Wong SSL et al.
Last reviewed: 01 October 2007
Last updated: 01 October 2007
First published: 03 May 2005
Metadata| Permanence level: Permanence Not Guaranteed