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Search Filters

Introduction

Search filters can help to focus your research and retrieve more clinically relevant research from health science databases. Using search filters for a particular topic or methodology may improve you search sensitivity or decrease the number of irrelevant results.

What are search filters?

 

Definition from Flinders University 'A search filter is a defined search strategy designed to find certain types of articles in a particular database....A search filter provides quick and easy access to the research evidence base'.

Flinders Filters https://www.flinders.edu.au/research-centre-palliative-care-death-dying/partnerships-and-projects/flinders-filters