There is great uncertainty regarding the relation between degenerative changes and age. This article aimed to summarize and quantify association between age and degenerative changes in the cervical spine by using the common imaging techniques. A structured literature search was conducted on medline (PubMed), Google Scholar and other databases. The search had no period or language restrictions. ...

OBJECTIVE Analyze the number and the relevance of references retrieved from CINAHL, MEDLINE, and EMBASE to perform a nursing systematic review. STUDY DESIGN A search strategy for the review topic was designed according to thesaurus terms. The study analyzes (1) references with abstract, (2) overlap between databases, (3) reference relevance, (4) relevance agreement between experts, and (5) re...

BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of systematic reviews evaluating the diagnostic test accuracy of technologies are being published. Currently, review teams tend to apply conventional systematic review standards to identify relevant studies for inclusion, for example sensitive searches of multiple bibliographic databases. There has been little evaluation of the efficiency of searching only one or t...

BACKGROUND Randomized trials are essential in assessing the effects of healthcare interventions and are a key component in systematic reviews of effectiveness. Searching for reports of randomized trials in databases is problematic due to the absence of appropriate indexing terms until the 1990s and inconsistent application of these indexing terms thereafter. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this ...

M e t h o d s Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, Current

Objective: This study aims to find out the coverage of biomedical journals published in Sub-Saharan Africa four authoritative international databases-Web Science, Scopus, MEDLINE and EMBASE two Africa-focused scholarly databases-Africa Journals Online (AJOL) African Index Medicus (AIM). Methods: Lists active that are 46 countries were retrieved from Ulrich periodical directory create master jou...

Data sources Studies were identified to July 2000 by searching Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, Current

BACKGROUND Methodological research to support searching for those doing systematic reviews of epidemiological studies is a relatively neglected area. Our aim was to determine how many databases it is necessary to search to ensure a comprehensive coverage of the literature in diabetes epidemiology, with the aim of examining the efficiency of searching in support of systematic reviews of the epid...

Background and purpose: Urticaria is a pruritic cutaneous disease characterized by weal and flare.  Acute and chronic urticaria affects the quality of life. Some abnormalities are associate or comorbid with urticaria. The purpose of this study was to examine comorbid conditions in patients with urticaria.  Materials and Methods: We searched in many databases including Google Scholar, PubMed, S...