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Pilot Health Services Research (HSR) Filters Project

Select from two filters to limit your retrieval. Choose either filters relating to health care quality or to health care costs. Enter your search topic in the box below and click Go. More information about this project.

HSR Quality-Related Queries using Research Methodology filters:

Indicate the category and emphasis below:

Category: appropriateness process assessment outcomes assessment clinical practice guidelines

Emphasis: sensitive search (broad) specific search (narrow)

HSR Cost-Related Queries using Research Methodology filters:

Indicate the category and emphasis below:

Category: costs economics

Emphasis: sensitive search (broad) specific search (narrow)


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Note: If you want to retrieve everything on a subject area, you should not use this screen. The objective of filtering is to reduce the retrieval to articles that report research that has been conducted with specific methodologic criteria.

More Information about this Project

These specialized Health Services Research (HSR) searches are intended for researchers, clinicians, health policy analysts and planners and have built-in search "filters" based largely on the work of Haynes RB, et al. Four health care quality categories and two health care cost categories (note: economics is a subset of the more general costs category) are provided, and the emphasis may be broader (i.e., mostly relevant articles but probably some less relevant ones too) or narrower (i.e., mostly relevant articles but probably omitting a few). See definitions for details about study methodology criteria. The resulting retrieval can be further refined using PubMed's Limits e.g., English language.

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Last updated: 31 March 2004
First published: 04 August 2003
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