A magnifying glass hovers over a map with various coloured human figurines, symbolising geographic search filters and data analysis in research.

Geographic filters in literature searches can help limit evidence to specific characteristics, such as country or region. A scoping review aimed to identify validated geographic search filters & evaluate their development & performance measures.
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Very proud to have contributed to this scoping review 😊! Hope that it encourages the development of validated geographic search filters for more locations. #medlibs #ukmedlibs #canmedlibs #ausmedlibs

#medlibs we added a Muente C et al. #review that identified validated #geographic #searchfilters and reported on their development and performance measures sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

#Medlibs and other #Librarians:
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What to do if PubMed goes down the drain YouTube video by IQWiG

What to do if PubMed goes down the drain

Information specialist Siw Waffenschmidt asks @hildabast.bsky.social, author of the blog 'Absolutely Maybe' and former NIH employee, for an assessment of the situation regarding #PubMed and #ClinicalTrials.gov.

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#medlibs Ayiku L and colleagues have published Ovid #Embase and #MEDLINE filters for #AI medical device interventions sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

Argh! Thanks 😊👍!

Please note: The filters retrieve evidence about medical device interventions with an AI component for digital health technology research topics. The filters are not designed to find evidence about AI in general. Also, AI technologies were not used in their development.

Pleased to share our latest validated search filters! The NICE AI medical device intervention filters (MEDLINE & Embase, Ovid) retrieve evidence about the interventions effectively and reliably: cambridge.org/core/journal...

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