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Imagining and validating a high-sensitivity pharmacy education hedge

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: To develop, test, and validate a comprehensive search hedge for research regarding pharmacy education. METHODS: The hedge was originally inspired by an author’s LibGuide and modifications were co-created by a research team that imagined that the hedge could be improved to achieve maximum sensitivity. A title search for pharmacy education systematic reviews was undertaken to discover papers that should be captured by a sensitive search hedge. Review articles were screened in Covidence under dual review, with a tie-breaking third reviewer for conflicts. During screening, special attention was given to the search strategies each review employed. High-quality reviews were used to extract primary studies which built a corpus of 100 PMIDs, which were used to evaluate and measure the relative recall of the search hedge. RESULTS: 100% relative recall was achieved across PubMed/Medline, Ovid/Medline, EBSCO/Medline, and Elsevier/Embase. CONCLUSIONS: This hedge, after undergoing the validation process, can be trusted to yield highly relevant results for librarians and other researchers in the pharmacy education field.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17195530
Authors: Jasmin, Hilary, Whitney, Rachel, Maloney, Molly, Divis, Deborah, Bullers, Krystal, Carlson, Rebecca, Gorman, Emily
Institutions: Medical University of South Carolina, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Creighton University, University of South Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7083197001
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