Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed

2023-09-15 public and global health Title + abstract only

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BackgroundInterrupted time series (ITS) studies contribute importantly to systematic reviews of population-level interventions. However, there is no search filter designed to identify only ITS studies from bibliographic databases. We aimed to develop and validate search filters to retrieve ITS studies in MEDLINE and PubMed. MethodsA set of 1,017 known ITS studies (published 2013-2017) were analysed using text mining to generate candidate terms. A population set of 1,398 time-series studies were...