The Development of a Prehospital Search Filter for the Cochrane Library

We report on the development of a prehospital search filter. The scope of the filter is deliberately broad and many of the studies retrieved may not be relevant to the prehospital environment. However, the filter has been designed to identify reports of trials contained in The Cochrane Library with the purpose of assembling a register of prehospital trials

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