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A newly developed search strategy for retrieving diagnostic studies on deep vein thrombosis achieved 98.8% sensitivity and 8.8% precision, identifying 147 studies missed by previous reviews.
A newly developed search strategy for medline achieved 98.8% sensitivity in retrieving diagnostic studies for DVT, identifying many high-quality articles omitted by existing systematic reviews.
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May aid DVT diagnostic literature retrieval; leaves open validation across databases and impact on reviews.
Vincent et al. (2003) studied Deep vein thrombosis. Sensitive search strategy vs. Existing diagnosis searches was evaluated on Sensitivity and precision of the search strategy. A newly developed search strategy for retrieving diagnostic studies on deep vein thrombosis achieved 98.8% sensitivity and 8.8% precision, identifying 147 studies missed by previous reviews.
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