Skip to main content

Table 5 Performance of the search strategy

From: Development and use of a content search strategy for retrieving studies on patients' views and preferences

Systematic review

Topic areas

Studies included (n)

Studies indexed in Pubmed (n)

Studies retrieved by the search strategy n (%)

Patient preferences and decision making domain n (%)

Health state utility values domain n (%)

Initial test of the relative recall

 McLean 2012 [29]

Antithrombotic therapy

50

49 (98%)

48 (97.9)

48 (97.9)

3 (6.1)

 Peasgood 2010 [41]

Breast cancer

50

44 (88%)

36 (81.8)

32 (72,73)

34 (77,27)

 Morton 2010 [40]

Chronic kidney disease

18

15 (83%)

15 (100.0)

15 (100.0)

1 (6.7)

 Petrillo 2011 [42]

COPD

11

11 (100%)

10 (90.9)

5 (45.4)

9 (81.8)

 Brooker 2013 [39]

COPD

12

12 (100%)

11 (91.7)

11(91.7)

2 (16.7)

 Bremmer 2007 [38]

Prostate cancer

21

20 (95%)

19 (95.0)

18(90.0)

18 (90.0)

Relative recall results RR*(95% CI) (n)

162

151 (93%)

92% (86.4-95.4) (139)

85.4% (78.9-90.1) (129)

44.4% (36.4-52.3) (67)

Re-test

 Shaw 2016 [57]

CV disease and daibetes

14

13 (93%)

11 (86,62)

11 (86,62)

0 (0.0)

 Smith 2015 [58]

Phyisical activity in joint replacement

13

13 (100%)

9 (69,23)

9 (69,23)

1 (7,69)

 Finlayson 2015 [59]

Metastatic cancer

15

15 (100%)

8 (53,3)

8 (53,3)

0 (0,0)

 Köberich 2015 [60]

Patient-centered nursing care

12

12 (100%)

11 (91,6)

11 (91,6)

0 (0,0)

 Loewen 2017 [62]

Antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibr.

28

26 (93%)

25 (96,15)

25 (96,15)

11 (42,3)

 Cowley 2016 [61]

Esophagogastric cancer

2

2 (100%)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 Brown 2017 [63]

Lung cancer

27

27 (100%)

23 (85,15)

11 (40,74)

20(74,07)

 Jeong 2016 [73]

Colorectal cancer

57

56 (98%)

53 (94,64)

26 (46,42)

51 (91,07)

 Carter 2015 [65]

Gastric cancer

8

7 (87.5%)

7 (100)

3 (42,8)

7 (100)

 Ward 2017 [64]

Brain trauma

5

5 (100%)

4 (80)

4 (80)

2 (40)

Relative recall results RR*(95% CI) (n)

181

176 (97%)

85,8% (79.9-90.2) (151)

61.4 (54.0-68.3) (108)

52.3% (44.9-59.5) (92)

Total. Relative recall results RR*(95% CI) (n)

343

327 (95%)

88,7% (84.8-91.7) (290)

72.5% (67.4-77.0) (237)

48.6% (43.2-54.0) (159)

  1. *RR: Relative Recall