Objective To assess the effects of abbreviated literature searches on evidence syntheses
conclusions. Study design and setting We randomly selected 60 Cochrane reviews of …

Abstract Background and Objectives Assessing changes in coverage, recall, review,
conclusions and references not found when searching fewer databases. Methods In …

Objectives To assess the proportion of the recent Cochrane reviews that included outcomes
in their literature search strategy, how often they acknowledged these limitations, and how …

Objective To determine the reproducibility of biomedical systematic review search strategies.
Study Design and Setting A cross-sectional reproducibility study was conducted on a …

Objectives We aimed to assess whether limiting the inclusion criteria solely to English-
language publications affected the overall conclusions of evidence syntheses. Study Design …

Objectives The objective of this study was to assess the agreement of treatment effect
estimates from meta-analyses based on abbreviated or comprehensive literature searches …

Objectives Searching multiple sources when conducting systematic reviews is considered
good practice. We aimed to investigate the impact of using sources beyond PubMed in …

Objective Article full texts are often inaccessible via the standard search engines of
biomedical literature, such as PubMed and Embase, which are commonly used for …

Objective To assess the impact of restricting systematic reviews of conventional or
alternative medical treatments or diagnostic tests to English-language publications. Study …

Objectives To maximize the proportion of relevant studies identified for inclusion in
systematic reviews (recall), complex time-consuming Boolean searches across multiple …