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Searching for health equity: validation of a search filter for ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in transport

BACKGROUND: Efforts to improve health equity should be informed by the best available evidence. However, equity-related research is inconsistently indexed, and uses a variety of terms to describe key concepts, making it difficult to reliably identify all relevant studies. We report the development a...

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Autores principales: Hosking, Jamie, Macmillan, Alexandra, Jones, Rhys, Ameratunga, Shanthi, Woodward, Alistair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30971313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1009-5
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author Hosking, Jamie
Macmillan, Alexandra
Jones, Rhys
Ameratunga, Shanthi
Woodward, Alistair
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Jones, Rhys
Ameratunga, Shanthi
Woodward, Alistair
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description BACKGROUND: Efforts to improve health equity should be informed by the best available evidence. However, equity-related research is inconsistently indexed, and uses a variety of terms to describe key concepts, making it difficult to reliably identify all relevant studies. We report the development and validation of a search strategy for studies investigating whether the effects of interventions differ by ethnicity or socio-economic status, using the field of transport and health as an example. METHODS: Adapting previously described methods, we followed four steps: generation of a test set of eligible studies, search strategy development, search strategy validation, and documentation. RESULTS: Drawing from 12 systematic reviews, supplemented by additional studies identified by experts and colleagues, we identified a test set of 11 studies that met our eligibility criteria. We assigned five studies to a development set, which we used to develop and refine our search strategy. We assigned the remaining six studies to a validation set, against which we tested our final search strategy. The final search strategy identified all studies in both validation and development sets. CONCLUSIONS: The validated search strategy derived in this study facilitates the conduct of systematic reviews and other literature searches investigating whether the effects of interventions differ by ethnicity or socio-economic status and may be further developed in future for other equity-focused searches and reviews.
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spelling pubmed-64587822019-04-22 Searching for health equity: validation of a search filter for ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in transport Hosking, Jamie Macmillan, Alexandra Jones, Rhys Ameratunga, Shanthi Woodward, Alistair Syst Rev Methodology BACKGROUND: Efforts to improve health equity should be informed by the best available evidence. However, equity-related research is inconsistently indexed, and uses a variety of terms to describe key concepts, making it difficult to reliably identify all relevant studies. We report the development and validation of a search strategy for studies investigating whether the effects of interventions differ by ethnicity or socio-economic status, using the field of transport and health as an example. METHODS: Adapting previously described methods, we followed four steps: generation of a test set of eligible studies, search strategy development, search strategy validation, and documentation. RESULTS: Drawing from 12 systematic reviews, supplemented by additional studies identified by experts and colleagues, we identified a test set of 11 studies that met our eligibility criteria. We assigned five studies to a development set, which we used to develop and refine our search strategy. We assigned the remaining six studies to a validation set, against which we tested our final search strategy. The final search strategy identified all studies in both validation and development sets. CONCLUSIONS: The validated search strategy derived in this study facilitates the conduct of systematic reviews and other literature searches investigating whether the effects of interventions differ by ethnicity or socio-economic status and may be further developed in future for other equity-focused searches and reviews. BioMed Central 2019-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6458782/ /pubmed/30971313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1009-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458782/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1009-5
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