Building a gold standard to construct search filters: a case study with biomarkers for oral cancer

Abstract

The methodology we used is generalizable to other domains requiring a reference standard to evaluate the performance of search filters. A gold standard is essential because the labels regarding relevance enable computation of diagnostic metrics, such as sensitivity and specificity. Librarians and informationists with data analysis skills could contribute to developing gold standard datasets and subsequent filters tuned for their patrons' domains of interest.

Roles for librarians in systematic reviews: a scoping review

“…Wilczynski stated, “A methodologic search filter is a search term or terms that select studies that are the most advanced stages of testing for clinical application” [ 42 , 43 ]. Librarians have built these search filters and hedges to use in systematic reviews [ 44 – 46 ] and evaluated the performance of hedges and filters to see if they were accurate in their retrieval [ 47 – 78 ]. Librarians also developed checklists and critical appraisal tools to determine which filters might be appropriate to use for particular types of searches [ 49 , 50 ].…”

Dengue Neonatal: Relato De Caso De Uma Transmissão Vertical Em Área Endêmica

“…Apesar disso, esse contínuo crescimento de publicações biomédicas impõe aos pesquisadores uma série de obstáculos na busca de literatura relevante. A busca se torna ainda mais difícil para leigos, acadêmicos e pesquisadores que possuam escassa experiência, o que torna laborioso o acesso à literatura específica (FRAZIER et al, 2015). Tendo em vista esta problemática, faz-se necessário que os autores facilitem o achado de seus estudos, uma vez que é o acesso da comunidade científica que torna real a contribuição de uma publicação científica (TEIXEIRA et al, 2012).…”

Methods and risk of bias in molecular marker prognosis studies in oral squamous cell carcinoma

“…We adopted the search strategy developed by Frazier, Stein, Tseytlin, and Bekhuis (2015), to retrieve prognostic studies of OSCC. The search strategy is described in Table 1.…”