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• A search filter for increasing the retrieval of animal studies in Embase
  Lab. Anim. 2011 45:4 (268-270)
  de Vries R.B.M., Hooijmans C.R., Tillema A., Leenaars M., Ritskes-Hoitinga M.
   
• Quality of medication use in primary care - mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature
  BMC Medicine 2009, 7:50 (21 September 2009)
  Garfield S, Barber N, Walley P, Willson A, Eliasson L
   
• Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations - a systematic review
  Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:86 (26 September 2009)
  Frei A, Svarin A, Steurer-Stey C, Puhan MA.
   
• Diagnostic test systematic reviews: Bibliographic search filters (“Clinical Queries”) for diagnostic accuracy studies perform well
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 62, Issue 9, September 2009, Pages 974-981
  Monika Kastner, Nancy L. Wilczynski, Ann K. McKibbon, Amit X. Garg, R. Brian Haynes
   
• Simplified search strategies were effective in identifying clinical trials of pharmaceuticals and physical modalities
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 58, Issue 9, September 2005, Pages 874.e1-874.e11
  Doreen Day, Andrea Furlan, Emma Irvin, Claire Bombardier
   
• Limited search strategies were effective in finding relevant nonrandomized studies
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 59, Issue 12, December 2006, Pages 1303-1311
  Andrea D. Furlan, Emma Irvin, Claire Bombardier
   
• Evidence-based resources and search strategies for orthopaedic surgeons
  Injury, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2006, Pages 307-311
  Michael Zlowodzki, Boris A. Zelle, Marius Keel, Peter A. Cole, Philip J. Kregor
   
• Identifying Clinical Trials in the Medical Literature with Electronic Databases: MEDLINE Alone Is Not Enough
  Controlled Clinical Trials, Volume 21, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 476-487
  Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, Elaine Belseck, Joanne Homik, Marlene Dorgan, Cesar Ramos-Remus
   
• Meta-analysts search Embase and Medline
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 2005, Page 321
  Margaret Sampson, Nicholas J. Barrowman, David Moher, Robert W. Platt, Philip D. St. John
   
• Should meta-analysts search Embase in addition to Medline?
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 2005, Page 320
  Karen A. Robinson
   
• Indexing of randomised controlled trials of physiotherapy interventions: a comparison of AMED, CENTRAL, CINAHL, EMBASE, Hooked on Evidence, PEDro, PsycINFO and PubMed
  Physiotherapy, Volume 95, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 151-156
  Anne M. Moseley, Catherine Sherrington, Mark R. Elkins, Robert D. Herbert, Christopher G. Maher
   
• Optimal Search Strategies for Detecting Clinically Sound Prognostic Studies in EMBASE: An Analytic Survey
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 12, Issue 4, July-August 2005, Pages 481-485
  Nancy L. Wilczynski, R. Brian Haynes
   
• MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane index most primary studies but not abstracts included in orthopedic meta-analyses
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 1261-1267
  Gerard P. Slobogean, Ashim Verma, Dean Giustini, Bronwyn L. Slobogean, Kishore Mulpuri
   
• Searching for rehabilitation articles on MEDLINE and EMBASE. An example with cross-over design
  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Volume 81, Issue 6, June 2000, Pages 720-722
  Silvia Minozzi, Vanna Pistotti, Marco Forni
   
• EMBASE search strategies achieved high sensitivity and specificity for retrieving methodologically sound systematic reviews
  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 29-33
  Nancy L. Wilczynski, R. Brian Haynes and for the Hedges Team
   
• EMBASE search strategies for identifying methodologically sound diagnostic studies for use by clinicians and researchers
  BMC Medicine 3:7 (2005), doi:10.1186/1741-7015-3-7
  Nancy L Wilczynski and R Brian Haynes for the Hedges Team
   
• Identifying Clinical Trials in the Medical Literature with Electronic Databases: MEDLINE Alone Is Not Enough
  Controlled Clinical Trials 21:476–487 (2000)
  Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD, Elaine Belseck, BScN, Joanne Homik, MD, MSc, Marlene Dorgan, BA, MLS, and Cesar Ramos-Remus, MD