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Today& #39;s find from medRxiv: "SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies"
(A #medlibs thread touching on #systematicreview searching) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.28.20202028v1">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...
(A #medlibs thread touching on #systematicreview searching) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.28.20202028v1">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...
"On June 8th, 2020, the investigators performed a PubMed search with the phrase, “((corona*) OR (COVID*) OR (”SARS-CoV-2”) OR (SARS*) OR (MERS*)) AND ((”viral load”) OR (”viral shedding”) OR (serolog*))."
Y& #39;all, they searched using "PubMed’s online advanced search algorithm".
Y& #39;all, they searched using "PubMed’s online advanced search algorithm".
To the surprise of no one who is familiar with my harping on search things... I don& #39;t consider this a systematic review. The search sucks. Not to mention it was only done in PubMed. At least throw in Google or Google Scholar if you don& #39;t have access to other resources!
Side note: I really miss showing truncation expansion from legacy. "corona*" hits that 600 variations barrier, which new PubMed doesn& #39;t have. But new PubMed doesn& #39;t show any translation of truncation - another reason to question its use, especially for "systematic reviews".
But you know what bothers me the most? This bit of info:
"This publication is based on research developed by the Institute for Disease Modeling prior to its affiliation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
The implications. <shudder>
"This publication is based on research developed by the Institute for Disease Modeling prior to its affiliation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
The implications. <shudder>
Why is it so hard for folks to ask #medlibs to be involved in these things?! It& #39;s not like we can& #39;t be had for cheap, or even *free*. Plenty of qualified, experienced searchers could& #39;ve donated their time and expertise.
Crowdsourcing it on twitter could come up with better. Heck, in less time than it took me to do this thread, even half-assing it or dealing with a migraine, I could come up with a better search. I know plenty of others who could as well.
Anyway. So yeah.
Anyway. So yeah.
