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Information Retrieval Meeting (IRM 2022)

10.06. - 11.06.2022, Cologne

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Semi-automated systematic review search strategy development tools: a guide for expert searchers

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  • corresponding author presenting/speaker Robin Paynter - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Effective Health Care Program, Scientific Resource Center. Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Gaelen Adam - Brown University Evidence-based Practice Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
  • Allison Hedden-Gross - ECRI Evidence-based Practice Center, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Claire Twose - Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Christiane Voisin - RTI International-University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

Information Retrieval Meeting (IRM 2022). Cologne, 10.-11.06.2022. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2022. Doc22irm20

doi: 10.3205/22irm20, urn:nbn:de:0183-22irm203

Published: June 8, 2022

© 2022 Paynter et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Introduction: A plethora of new and established semi-automated systematic review (SR) information retrieval tools exist but keeping up with this fast-moving field is time consuming for busy biomedical SR searchers. We are developing a quick and intuitive guide for expert searchers, organizing the tools by search strategy development phase and evaluating key features using standardized criteria to make choosing and using tools easier.

Methods: List of search tools primarily drawn from the SR Toolbox website and categorized by search phase: initial scoping/seed citation list development, keyword/phrase/subject term identification, search logic, strategy evaluation, database translation, grey literature search, and deduplication. We are analyzing the tools using an overarching, across-categories set of criteria (ex. Fee/Free, Web-based/download, file import/export, usability, etc.) in addition to specific strategy development phase criteria. We will present our preliminary results in our draft data visualization reporting format.

Results: We will present our preliminary findings.

Conclusions: We will present our preliminary conclusions.

Keywords: strategy development tools, text-mining