DIMDI - Tips to help the search the DAHTA database for HTA reports

Tips to help the search the DAHTA database for HTA reports

Search using keywords

• Enter keywords
  • When you enter keywords substitute parts of the words by the wild card "?": "hear?", "?eart", "?ear?"
• Choose in the first selection list
  • as entered
  • one of the words: the keywords are combined with OR for the search
  • all words: the keywords are combined with AND for the search
• Choose in the second selection list
  • text fields (search in the fields title, full text, and abstract)
  • title
  • author: enter a name with "?" like as "droste?"
  • publication year: enter one or multiple years like as "2000" and select as entered or "2000 2001" and select one of the words
• Start the search by clicking the button " search"

Other options for searching are

• Reports assorted by ICD chapter
  The publications are systemised according the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) that are published by the WHO
• Reports concerning methods
  All publications which deal with methodical questions of health technology assessment, like methods for carrying out meta-analyses or short HTA reports are listed
• Get a list of all reports ...
  All publications of the DAHTA database are assorted according to the publication year