March 10, 2025 search strategies for MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), and CENTRAL (Wiley) databases. The dataset contains the full search strings used for a systematic meta-analysis investigating sex differences in trial representation and the cardiovascular effectiveness and safety of newer glucose-lowering agents in patients with and without type 2 diabetes. It was authored by Lê, Mê-Linh and last updated on October 13, 2025.
Use Cases
- Replicate a systematic review search based on the documented MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CENTRAL strategies.
- Audit the comprehensiveness of a literature search for a meta-analysis on cardiovascular outcomes.
- Study the construction of complex Boolean search strings for medical databases.
- Compare search strategies across different medical literature databases (Ovid, Wiley).
Strengths
- Contains the exact search strings run on three major medical databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL).
- Search date is explicitly documented as March 10, 2025.
- Author and last update timestamp (2025-10-13 03:55:54) are provided.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Search strings compiled for a systematic meta-analysis.
- Time Range
- Search executed March 10, 2025.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-13 03:55:54; freshness should be verified
- Geography
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