Handsearching had best recall but poor efficiency when exporting to a bibliographic tool: case study
Cooper, C; Snowsill, T; Worsley, C; et al.Prowse, A; O'Mara-Eves, A; Greenwood, H; Noble-Longster, J; Boulton, E; Strickson, A
Date: 27 March 2020
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Publisher
Elsevier
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Abstract
Objective: To compare the effectiveness and efficiency of methods used to identify
and export conference abstracts into a bibliographic management tool.
Study design and setting: Case study. The effectiveness and efficiency of methods
to identify and export conference abstracts presented at the American Society of
Hematology ...
Objective: To compare the effectiveness and efficiency of methods used to identify
and export conference abstracts into a bibliographic management tool.
Study design and setting: Case study. The effectiveness and efficiency of methods
to identify and export conference abstracts presented at the American Society of
Hematology (ASH) conference 2016-2018 for a systematic review were evaluated.
A reference standard handsearch of conference proceedings was compared to: 1)
contacting Blood (the journal who report ASH proceedings); 2) keyword searching; 3)
searching Embase; 4) searching MEDLINE via EndNote; and 5) searching CPCI-S.
Effectiveness was determined by the number of abstracts identified compared with
the reference standard, while efficiency was a comparison between the resources
required to identify and export conference abstracts compared to the reference
standard.
Results: 604 potentially eligible and 15 confirmed eligible conference abstracts
(abstracts included in the review) were identified by the handsearch. Comparator 2
was the only method to identify all abstracts and it was more efficient than the
reference standard. Comparators 1, and 3-5 missed a number of eligible abstracts.
Conclusion: This study raises potentially concerning questions about searching for
conferences’ abstracts by methods other than directly searching the original
conference proceedings. Efficiency of exporting would be improved if journals
permitted bulk downloads.
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