PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

Methley, Abigail; Campbell, Stephen; Chew‐Graham, Carolyn; McNally, Rosalind; Cheraghi‐Sohi, Sudeh

doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0579-0

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PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

Published in BMC Health Services Research • Nov 21, 2014

Authors:

Abigail Methley

Stephen Campbell

Carolyn Chew‐Graham

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Qualitative systematic reviews are increasing in popularity in evidence based health care. Difficulties have been reported in conducting literature searches of qualitative research using the PICO search tool. An alternative search tool, entitled SPIDER, was recently developed for more ef...

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Qualitative research

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