Pires Gabriel Natan, Arnardóttir Erna S, Saavedra Jose M, Tufik Sergio, McNicholas Walter T
Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), Regensburg, Germany.
Reykjavik University Sleep Institute, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland; Landspitali, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sleep Med. 2025 Mar;127:100-119. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2024.12.032. Epub 2025 Jan 8.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are increasingly common in sleep research, although the methodological quality level has been a matter of concern. Efforts towards methodological standardization are needed to ensure the reliability of sleep-related systematic reviews. The development of search strategies is a critical step in a systematic review, which often lead to methodological biases. Standardized search filters have been used to facilitate the development of search strategies. However, such filters have not been developed for sleep medicine. The current study aimed at developing a list of PubMed search filters related to sleep medicine, including specific search strategies for different sleep disorders and sleep conditions. First, a list of sleep disorders and conditions was created for which search filters would be developed. This included most conditions listed in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders - 3rd edition. Additional search filters were developed for proposed disorders not recognized as independent clinical entities, and for other sleep-related conditions. All search strategies were designed specifically for PubMed, by combining relevant MeSH terms and free terms. Nine fully independent and unrelated MeSH terms related to sleep were identified. In total, 91 search filters were developed, related to 71 different sleep-related conditions. With the current work, we aimed to provide a list of reliable search filters organized to cover the field in a broad manner, therefore being useful for different types of systematic reviews within sleep medicine, ranging from narrow-focused meta-analyses to broader scoping reviews, mapping reviews, and meta-epidemiological studies.
系统评价和荟萃分析在睡眠研究中越来越普遍，尽管方法学质量水平一直是一个令人担忧的问题。需要努力实现方法学标准化，以确保与睡眠相关的系统评价的可靠性。检索策略的制定是系统评价中的关键一步，这往往会导致方法学偏倚。标准化检索过滤器已被用于促进检索策略的制定。然而，尚未针对睡眠医学开发此类过滤器。本研究旨在制定一份与睡眠医学相关的PubMed检索过滤器列表，包括针对不同睡眠障碍和睡眠状况的特定检索策略。首先，创建了一份将为其开发检索过滤器的睡眠障碍和状况列表。这包括《国际睡眠障碍分类》第三版中列出的大多数状况。还为未被认可为独立临床实体的拟议障碍以及其他与睡眠相关的状况开发了额外的检索过滤器。所有检索策略都是通过结合相关医学主题词（MeSH）和自由词专门为PubMed设计的。确定了九个与睡眠相关的完全独立且不相关的MeSH词。总共开发了91个检索过滤器，涉及71种不同的与睡眠相关的状况。通过当前的工作，我们旨在提供一份可靠的检索过滤器列表，其组织方式广泛涵盖该领域，因此对睡眠医学中不同类型的系统评价有用，从聚焦狭窄的荟萃分析到范围更广的综述、图谱综述和荟萃流行病学研究。
