Best single terms for sensitive searches for retrieving studies of occupational health interventions (specificity at least 50%)
| Search strategy for PubMed | Sensitivity (%) (95% CI) | Specificity (%) (95% CI) | Precision (%) (95% CI) | Accuracy (%) (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Truncation; tw, textwords (word in title, abstract, or keywords). | ||||
| Intervention terms | ||||
| effect* [tw] | 75 (67.5 to 81.5) | 63 (62.3 to 64.1) | 2.7 (2.4 to 3.0) | 63 (55.7 to 71.2) |
| control* [tw] | 66 (58.9 to 74.0) | 75 (74.0 to 75.6) | 3.5 (3.1 to 3.9) | 75 (67.7 to 81.6) |
| evaluat* [tw] | 48 (40.3 to 56.4) | 84 (82.9 to 84.3) | 3.9 (3.5 to 4.2) | 83 (77.1 to 89.1) |
| compare* [tw] | 40 (31.7 to 47.5) | 80 (79.0 to 80.5) | 2.6 (2.3 to 2.9) | 79 (72.7 to 85.7) |
| program* [tw] | 35 (27.2 to 42.6) | 95 (94.4 to 95.2) | 8.4 (7.9 to 9.0) | 94 (90.2 to 97.8) |
| outcome* [tw] | 32 (24.7 to 39.7) | 80 (79.4 to 80.9) | 2.2 (1.9 to 2.5) | 80 (73.0 to 86.0) |
| Occupational health terms | ||||
| work* [tw] | 71 (63.9 to 78.4) | 88 (87.4 to 88.7) | 7.5 (7.1 to 8.0) | 88 (82.6 to 93.1) |
| occupation* [tw] | 57 (49.1 to 65.0) | 88 (87.7 to 88.9) | 6.3 (5.8 to 6.7) | 88 (82.6 to 93.1) |
| prevention* [tw] | 46 (38.3 to 54.3) | 90 (89.5 to 90.7) | 6.0 (5.6 to 6.5) | 89 (84.6 to 94.4) |
| pain* [tw] | 28 (21.0 to 35.4) | 93 (92.2 to 93.19 | 5.0 (4.6 to 5.4) | 92 (87.4 to 96.2) |
| expos* [tw] | 25 (17.9 to 31.8) | 88 (87.7 to 89.0) | 2.8 (2.5 to 3.2) | 88 (82.2 to 92.8) |
| protect* [tw] | 22 (15.5 to 28.8) | 97 (96.8 to 97.4) | 9.6 (9.0 to 10.1) | 96 (93.0 to 99.2) |