Developing and validating PubMed infant hedges for PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE: a Medical Library Association pediatrics librarians caucus initiative
The variation in field tags did not provide a significant difference in the areas of sensitivity and specificity. The filter performed as expected with higher specificity rather than sensitivity. The simple keyword hedge performed better than anticipated with comparable sensitivity and specificity of the more complex hedges. When searching for infant population articles, the simple keyword search and filter work well for quick, clinical searching. For evidence synthesis, we recommend using one of the more sensitive infant hedges.
Authors
- Roxanne Bogucka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4080-011X)
- Emily Brennan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-1499)
- Lynn Kysh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-0546)
- Rachel Hinrichs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0762-744X)
- Christine Willis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3672-3274)
- Zoë Baker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-1964)
Institutions
- Indiana University Health (US)
- Medical University of South Carolina (US)
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (US)
- Indiana University Indianapolis (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2034
- Primary Topic
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00