How to identify randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE: ten years on.

By Julie May Glanville, Carol Lefebvre, Jeremy Miles, Janette Camosso-Stefinovic. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2006

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Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments (2009, background): “Collaboration, has resulted in increased performance of search filters up to over 99% [15].”
Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Collaboration (2011, methodology): “These include being aware of the time taken for records to appear in CENTRAL from source databases such as MEDLINE and Embase, understanding that across the years different processes and searches have been used to populate CENTRAL, and recognizing that for trial registry records not all fields of co”
2009 Updated Method Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Back Review Group (2009, methodology): “A computer-aided search of the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases since their inception for new reviews and since the date of the previous search for updates of reviews.(7,8) The highly sensitive search strategies for retrieval of reports of controlled trials should be run in conjunction with a specific s”
Machine learning for identifying Randomized Controlled Trials: An evaluation and practitioner's guide (2018, background): “The sensitivity of the PT tag improves gradually with time from article publication, since some retrospective correction occurs; including adding the PT tag to the missed RCTs based on data fed back by the Cochrane Collaboration.(11) The PT tag forms a core part of all the best‐ performing tradition”
2015 Updated Method Guideline for Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Back and Neck Group (2015, methodology): “Searching only MEDLINE is clearly insufficient because it has been shown that in general, approximately only half of the available Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) will be identified if MEDLINE is the only database searched.(7) It has been suggested that at least MEDLINE and EMBASE must be used t”