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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Research article

Database combinations to retrieve systematic reviews in overviews of reviews: a methodological study

Authors: Käthe Goossen, Simone Hess, Carole Lunny, Dawid Pieper

Published in: BMC Medical Research Methodology | Issue 1/2020

Abstract

Background

When conducting an Overviews of Reviews on health-related topics, it is unclear which combination of bibliographic databases authors should use for searching for SRs. Our goal was to determine which databases included the most systematic reviews and identify an optimal database combination for searching systematic reviews.

Methods

A set of 86 Overviews of Reviews with 1219 included systematic reviews was extracted from a previous study. Inclusion of the systematic reviews was assessed in MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, Epistemonikos, PsycINFO, and TRIP. The mean inclusion rate (% of included systematic reviews) and corresponding 95% confidence interval were calculated for each database individually, as well as for combinations of MEDLINE with each other database and reference checking.

Results

Inclusion of systematic reviews was higher in MEDLINE than in any other single database (mean inclusion rate 89.7%; 95% confidence interval [89.0–90.3%]). Combined with reference checking, this value increased to 93.7% [93.2–94.2%]. The best combination of two databases plus reference checking consisted of MEDLINE and Epistemonikos (99.2% [99.0–99.3%]). Stratification by Health Technology Assessment reports (97.7% [96.5–98.9%]) vs. Cochrane Overviews (100.0%) vs. non-Cochrane Overviews (99.3% [99.1–99.4%]) showed that inclusion was only slightly lower for Health Technology Assessment reports. However, MEDLINE, Epistemonikos, and reference checking remained the best combination. Among the 10/1219 systematic reviews not identified by this combination, five were published as websites rather than journals, two were included in CINAHL and Embase, and one was included in the database ERIC.

Conclusions

MEDLINE and Epistemonikos, complemented by reference checking of included studies, is the best database combination to identify systematic reviews on health-related topics.

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Title: Database combinations to retrieve systematic reviews in overviews of reviews: a methodological study
Authors: Käthe Goossen
Simone Hess
Carole Lunny
Dawid Pieper
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Medical Research Methodology / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00983-3

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Database combinations to retrieve systematic reviews in overviews of reviews: a methodological study

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