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Removing animal and nonhuman records in Ovid Embase: A comparison of 11 filters

2026-02-17 health informatics Title + abstract only
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IntroductionSeveral filters are routinely used to remove animal or nonhuman records in Ovid Embase, despite there being no performance data for them. The filters take different approaches in design. ObjectiveTo understand and compare the impact of 11 filters to remove animal or nonhuman records in Ovid Embase. To understand the indexing of relevant subject headings in Embase. MethodsTo assess filter performance, we screened and categorised 3,000 records as should be removed or should be reta...

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