|
Disease
|
Filter
|
Number of articles
|
Recall
|
Precision
|
|---|
| | |
Reference set
|
Retrieved by the filter
|
Retrieved and reporting sex-specific evidence
| | |
|---|
| | |
(X)
|
(Y)
|
(Z)
|
(Z/X)
|
(Z/Y)
|
|---|
|
Alzheimer's disease
|
SSS
|
29
|
57
|
28
|
97%
|
49%
|
| |
SS MeSHb
|
29
|
15
|
10
|
34%
|
67%
|
| |
M&Sc
|
29
|
39
|
16
|
55%
|
41%
|
|
Asthma
|
SSS
|
69
|
68
|
53
|
77%
|
78%
|
| |
SS MeSH
|
69
|
23
|
20
|
29%
|
87%
|
| |
M&S
|
69
|
79
|
57
|
83%
|
72%
|
|
Total
|
SSS
|
98
|
125
|
81
|
83%
|
65%
|
| |
SS MeSH
|
98
|
38
|
30
|
31%
|
79%
|
| |
M&S
|
98
|
118
|
73
|
74%
|
62%
|
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a The filters were applied to articles on original studies of Alzheimer's disease and of asthma in humans, with an abstract, written in English, published in core clinical journals in 2007 and 2008, and included in MEDLINE as of June 13 2008. Thus, 662 articles on original studies were identified, including 219 articles on Alzheimer's disease and 443 articles on asthma.
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b Sex-specific MeSH (SS MeSH) include the following MeSH combined with the operator 'OR': sex factors, sex characteristics, sex distribution, sex, sex ratio and gender identity.
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c Modification of the filter as designed by Montgomery and Sherif [26]. Included were the MeSH terms referring to sex differences, gender issues and women's health, free text words referring to women and the text word gender (see Table 2); excluded was a search in women's health journals.
