From: Locating sex-specific evidence on clinical questions in MEDLINE: a search filter for use on OvidSP™
Search termsa | |
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#1 | (gender$ or sex$).af. |
#2 | (boys or girls).tw. |
#3 | (women or men).ti. |
#4 | (male$1 or female$1).ti. |
#5 | (women or men).ab./freq=4 |
#6 | (male$1 or female$1).ab./freq=4 |
#7 | (women adj8 men).ab. |
#8 | (female$1 adj8 male$1).ab. |
#9 | or/1–8 |
The filter can be combined with a disease or other topic by adding search commands for the disease or topic and combining these commands with the SSS filter by using the Boolean operator 'AND'. | |
We recommend to do a search in the leading clinical journals on women's health in addition to a search with the SSS filter as described above. The following Ovid search terms for journals can be used: gender medicine.jn., journal of womens health.jn., journal of womens health & gender based medicine.jn. in combination with the disease or topic in question. |