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Appendix E
Literature Search Strategy: Clinical Practice Guidelines
SEARCH CONTENT
OVID Databases:
Ovid MEDLINE® In-process and Other Non-indexed Citations and Ovid MEDLINE® (1950–Present): The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s® bibliographic database providing information on medicine, nursing , dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and preclinical sciences.
EMBASE (1988–September 2009): A biomedical database produced by Elsevier. EMBASE covers nearly 5,000 active journals, of which nearly 2,000 are unique compared with MEDLINE.
PsycINFO (1987–September 2009): A database containing a wide variety of scholarly publications in the behavioral and social sciences.
Global Health (1973–2009): An abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice.
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Search websites of AGREE, GRADE, AHIP, BCBS Tec, Kaiser Permanente, KFF, RWJF.
SEARCH PROCESS
Search each database uniquely.
Limit to English and human studies.
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Search the following in the title or abstract: consensus development or decision making, development, evaluation, implementation, comorbidities, heterogeneity, policy or law or legal, implications, tool or taxonomy, reimbursement, measurement, performance or performance measures, consumer or public, grading or rating, issues or concerns, methods, quality, electronic medical record (EMR) or computer decision support system (CDSS).
Two independent reviewers track subject headings and key terms in key articles and use to further electronic search.
Two independent reviewers screen article abstracts and full articles to determine if they fit the committee’s charge.
Handsearch cited references within key identified literature.
Manage references in EndNote.