De-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote
Authors
Wichor M. Bramer
Biomedical Information Specialist, Medical Library, Erasmus MC–Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Dean Giustini
UBC Biomedical Branch Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Gerdien B. de Jonge
Biomedical information Specialist, Medical Library, Erasmus MC–Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Leslie Holland
Manager, Library, Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, TN
Tanja Bekhuis
Assistant Professor and Director, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Dental Public Health, School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA
When conducting exhaustive searches for systematic reviews, information professionals search multiple databases with overlapping content. They typically remove duplicate records to reduce the reviewers’ workload associated with screening titles and abstracts; sometimes the reviewers remove the duplicates.This article describes a de-duplication method.
