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A technical review of the ISPOR presentations database identified issues in the search interface and areas for future development
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Cooper, Chris, Brown, Anna, Court, Rachel A. and Schauberger, Ute (2022) A technical review of the ISPOR presentations database identified issues in the search interface and areas for future development. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 38 (1). e29. doi:10.1017/S0266462322000137 ISSN 0266-4623.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266462322000137
Abstract
Objective
To undertake a technical review of the search interface of the ISPOR Presentations Database. By technical review, we mean an evaluation of the technical aspects of the search interface and functionality, which a user must navigate to complete a search.
Methods
A validated checklist (Bethel and Rogers, 2014, Health Info Libr J, 31, 43-53) was used to identify where the interface performed well, where the interface was adequate, where the interface performed poorly, where functionality available in core biomedical bibliographic databases does not exist in the ISPOR database, and to establish a list of any issues arising during the review. Two researchers independently undertook the technical review in October 2021.
Results
The ISPOR database scored 35 of a possible 165 (27/111 essential criteria and 8/54 desirable criteria). Two issues arising were identified, both of which will cause searchers to miss potentially eligible abstracts: (i) that search terms, which include * or ? as truncation or wildcard symbols should not be capitalized (e.g., cost* not Cost*; organi?ation not Organi?ation) and (ii) that quotation marks should be straight sided in phrase searching (e.g., “cost analyses” not “cost analyses”).
Conclusions
The ISPOR database is a promising and free database to identify abstracts/posters presented at ISPOR. We summarize two key issues arising, and we set out proposed changes to the search interface, including: adding the ability to export abstracts to a bibliographic tool, exporting search strategies, adding a researcher account, and updating the help guide. All suggestions will further improve this helpful database.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Database management, Medical innovations -- Evaluation, User interfaces (Computer systems), Technology assessment, Outcome assessment (Medical care) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0266-4623 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 8 March 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e29 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0266462322000137 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 August 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 August 2022 | ||||||||
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