Search filters include both terms to retrieve quality results for inquiry types, as well as search lines with study types to help sort results for critical appraisal. For some clinical questions it may be appropriate to combine portions of more than one filter.
**Indicates See Search Notes
1. (prognos$ or outcome$ or follow-up or predict$).tw,sh.
2. exp Prognosis/ **
3. Disease Progression/
4. ((clinical or natural$ or disease$) adj (progress$ or course$ or histor$)).tw,sh.
5. Time Factors/
6. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5
7. exp Cohort Studies/ **
8. (cohort$ or compar$ or longitudinal$ or prospective$ or multivariate or reproducib$).tw,sh.
9. 7 or 8
10. 6 and 9 **
11. Meta Analysis.pt. or (meta analy$ or metaanaly$).tw. or systematic review$.tw. or (published studies or medline or embase or data synthesis or data extraction).ab. or cochrane.jw. **
(If appropriate, consider including the MeSH term: meta-analysis as topic)
12. (Guideline or Practice Guideline or Consensus Development Conference or Consensus Development Conference, NIH).pt. or (guideline$ or consensus).tw,hw. or recommend$.ti.
(If appropriate, consider including the MeSH terms: Guidelines as Topic; Practice Guidelines as Topic)
Search Notes:
Search Statement #10: If mortality is a possible outcome, increase the sensitivity by adding with the Boolean OR after Search Statement #10:
exp Mortality/ or exp Survival Analysis/ or surviv$.tw,sh.
What will be included in this search:
exp Prognosis in statement 2 includes:
Disease-Free Survival
Medical Futility
Pregnancy Outcome
Treatment Outcome
-Treatment Failure
exp Mortality above includes:
Cause of Death
Child Mortality
Fatal Outcome
Fetal Mortality
Hospital Mortality
Infant Mortality
Maternal Mortality
Survival Rate
exp Survival Analysis above includes:
Disease-Free Survival
exp Cohort Studies in Statement #7 includes:
Longitudinal Studies
- Follow-up Studies
- Prospective Studies
Search Statement #11: Consider using the Subject Subset limit, “Systematic Reviews”. This option is located within the Additional Limits option. This limit may also be entered directly in the search box as:
Limit [set #] to systematic reviews
Depending on the nature of your prognosis question, and in order to refine the focus of your strategy, you may want to consider incorporating any number of the MeSH and/or textwords listed below:
MeSH
Age Factors
Cause of Death
Disease Susceptibility
-Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Family Characteristics
Health Status
Incidence
Morbidity
Prevalence
Recurrence
Sex Factors
Textwords
clinical course
recover$
recur$
relaps$
remission$
surviv$
treatment effectiveness
The Ovid MEDLINE prognosis filter was developed by librarians at the University of Missouri - Columbia and the University of Virginia. For more information about the FPIN search filters, please contact the FPIN Librarian Coordinator.