Table. 4 Summary results by approach
From: Efficiency of pragmatic search strategies to update clinical guidelines recommendations
Exhaustive approach | Restrictive approacha | PLUS approach | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | %b | n | %b | |
References identification | ||||||
References retrieved in search for clinical guidelines | 39136 | 12486 | 31.9 | 4486 | 11.5 | |
Key references identified from recommendation sample | 69 | 62 | 89.9 | 18 | 26.1 | |
Recommendation identification | ||||||
Potential update recommendations identified from recommendation sample | 25 | 22 | 88.0 | 10 | 40.0 | |
Resource use | ||||||
Guidelines methodologists | 4 | 3 | 75.0 | - | ||
Information specialist | - | - | 1 | 25.0 | ||
Time to perform the search (hours) | 279 | 174.3 | 62.5 | 28 | 10.0 | |