| Capture-mark-recapture as a tool for estimating the number of articles available for systematic reviews in critical care medicine. | |
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PMID: 23312123 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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INTRODUCTION: Systematic reviews are an important knowledge synthesis tool for critical care medicine clinicians and researchers. With new literature available each day, reviewers must balance identifying all relevant literature against timely synthesis. We therefore sought to apply capture-mark-recapture, a novel methodology, to estimate the population of articles available for a systematic review of effective patient rounding practices in critical care medicine. METHODS: Capture-mark-recapture was applied retrospectively to estimate the population of articles available for a systematic review of 4 bibliographic databases. All research studies (no methodology restrictions) of patient rounding practices in critical care medicine were included. Estimates of article population size were calculated for search of the bibliographic databases, selection of articles for full-text review, and selection of articles for inclusion in the systematic review. RESULTS: Capture-mark-recapture estimated a population of 28 839 articles (95% confidence interval [CI], 12 393-70 990) for search of the bibliographic databases, 169 articles (95% CI, 152-202) for full-text review, and 48 articles (95% CI, 39-131) for inclusion in the systematic review. These estimates suggest that our search identified 15% (4462/28 839) of the population of potentially available articles for the search of the bibliographic databases, 79% (133/169) of articles for full-text review, and 79% (38/48) of articles for inclusion in the systematic review. CONCLUSIONS: The capture-mark-recapture technique can be applied to systematic reviews in critical care medicine with heterogeneous study methodologies to estimate the population of articles available. Capture-mark-recapture may help clinicians who use systematic reviews to estimate search completeness and researchers who perform systematic reviews to develop more efficient literature search strategies. |
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Daniel Lane; Jonathan Dykeman; Mauricio Ferri; Charles H Goldsmith; Henry T Stelfox |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-8 |
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Title: Journal of critical care Volume: - ISSN: 1557-8615 ISO Abbreviation: J Crit Care Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8610642 Medline TA: J Crit Care Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada T2N 4Z6. Electronic address: dan.lane@ucalgary.ca. |
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