Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Going wide and grey

2006; Springer Nature; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/sj.ebd.6400388

1476-5446

Derek Richards,

Health and Medical Research Impacts

The number of references on systematic reviews in Medline continues to increase year on year. Figure 1 shows the results of using two different search strategies that we use for identifying potential articles for use in this journal. The first is a sensitive one designed for maximum identification of dental studies in Medline. The second a more specific one which is more focussed but may miss some dentally relevant studies. These have both been combined with a specific systematic review search strategy developed at McMaster Medical School (search strategies available on request from ebdeditor@nature.com). This shows that the number of dental systematic review references on Medline using the OVID platform (Ovid Technologies, New York, USA) have increased from 24 to 153 for the specific strategy and from 60 to 406 for the sensitive strategy between 1994 and 2005. I say references rather than reviews as not all of these references will be actual new reviews as some may be editorials, letters or how to conduct or assess reviews.