Development of Two Search Strategies for Literature in MEDLINE–PubMed: Nursing Diagnoses in the Context of Evidence-Based Nursing

Abstract

PURPOSE. To develop and validate search filters for MEDLINE via PubMed according to two categories of the NLINKS-EBN matrix.

METHODS. The search results of the search filters were compared to a gold standard.

FINDINGS. The usage of nursing classification terms for the literature search in evidence-based nursing (EBN) is still limited because taxonomies are neither widely used in nursing literature nor applied for indexing by MEDLINE. The proposed filters achieved a sensitivity of 96% and a specificity of 94% for “secondary data” and a sensitivity of 87% and a specificity of 73% for “diagnostic tests.”

CONCLUSIONS. The usage of database-specific search filters are a reliable and valid method to search for nursing classification terms in medical databases.

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