A comparison of handsearching versus EMBASE searching of the Annals of Saudi Medicine to identify reports of randomized controlled trials

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A comparison of handsearching versus embase searching of the archives of Iranian medicine to identify reports of randomized controlled trials.

t is increasingly recognized that health care decision-making around the world needs to be informed by high quality and timely research evidence. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) has long been considered the “gold standard” in the hierarchy of evidence; randomized trials, involving sufficient numbers of participants, are essential to distinguish reliably between the effects of health care ...

A Comparison of Handsearching Versus EMBASE Searching of the Bahrain Medical Bulletin to Identify Reports of Randomized Controlled Trials

Methods: All issues of the BMB were searched by hand from cover to cover for reports of trials. These were classified as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or controlled clinical trials (CCTs) according to the Cochrane eligibility criteria. Photocopies of the bibliographic details and of the pages describing the study design of the reports identified were sent to the UK Cochrane Centre for ver...

A comparison of handsearching versus MEDLINE searching to identify reports of randomized controlled trials.

This study aims to compare handsearching to a basic MEDLINE search for the identification of reports of randomized trials in specialized health care journals. Twenty-two specialized health care journals, published in the U.K., were handsearched for all reports of controlled trials (as defined by the Cochrane Collaboration). The reports of trials, which were judged to be definitely randomized, w...

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...