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Table 1 Number of articles identified by search strategies and included in systematic review

From: An assessment of the efficacy of searching in biomedical databases beyond MEDLINE in identifying studies for a systematic review on ward closures as an infection control intervention to control outbreaks

 

Number identified articles

Number of included articles retrieved by search strategy (n= 97)

Relative recall

Number of articles in systematic review indexed by each database (n= 97)

Sensitivity

Number identified after deduplication

Number of unique articles

MEDLINE

832

80

82.5%

93

86%

777

4

Embase

1,024

80

82.5%

91

87.9%

361

4

CINAHL

294

35

36.1%

44

79.5%

99

4

LILACS

1,101

0

0%

75

0%

723

0

IndMED

165

0

0%

0

0%

88

0

Other

36

8

8.3%

-

-

36

8