The medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID medline

A validated geographic search filter for the retrieval of research about the United Kingdom (UK) from bibliographic databases had not previously been published.To develop and validate a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID medline with high recall and precision.Three gold standard sets of references were generated using the relative recall method. The sets contained references to studies about the UK which had...