Skip to main content

Table 5 Evaluation of established RCT filters

From: Study filters for non-randomized studies of interventions consistently lacked sensitivity upon external validation

Study filters

Hits in MEDLINE

Sensitivity NRCTs

Therapy Medline (Haynes 2005) – max. Sensitivity

5.213.988

54%

Therapy Medline (Haynes 2005) – max. Specifity

485.918

13%

Therapy Medline (Haynes 2005) – optimizing sensitivity/specifity

796.127

16%

Cochrane Search Strategy (2008) – sensitivity-max.

3.581.596

57%

Cochrane Search Strategy (2008) – sensitivity and precision-max.

1.057.717

37%