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Table 1 Description of search results according to number of tools

From: Insights from using an outcomes measurement properties search filter and conducting citation searches to locate psychometric articles of tools used to measure context attributes

Criteria

[N (%)]

PROM [N (%)]

Non-PROMs [N (%)]

Outcomes measurement properties (both versions) Filter (N = 29 tools)a

 Subtotal—Number of named tools for which a search using the outcomes measurement properties (both versions) filter was performed

29/31 (93.5%)

12/12 (100.0%)

17/19 (89.5%)

• Number of tools for which a relevant article was not found

7 (24.1%)

2 (16.7%)

5 (41.7%)

• Number of tools for which at least one relevant article was found

22 (75.9%)

10 (83.3%)

12 (70.6%)

Precise Filterb—Reference checking on identified relevant articles (N = 22 tools)

 Subtotal—Number of tools with relevant articles for which we performed a search of their reference list

22/31 (71.0%)

10/12 (83.3%)

12/19 (70.6%)

• Number of tools for which at least one additional relevant article was found

5 (22.7%)

2 (20.0%)

3 (25%)

 • Number of tools for which additional relevant articles found via reference checking are not indexed in PubMed

4/5 (80.0%)

1/2 (50.0%)

3/3 (100%)

 • Number of tools for which additional relevant articles found via reference checking are indexed in PubMed

1/5 (20.0%)

1/2 (50.0%)

0/3 (0.0%)

Citation Search (N = 9 tools)

 Subtotal—Number of tools for which a citation search was performed

9/31 (29.0%)

2/12 (16.7%)

7/19 (36.8%)

• Number of named tools for which at least one relevant article was found

3 (33.3%)

0 (0.0%)

3 (42.9%)

• Number of named tools for which a citation search of known development article could not be performed on Scopus or Web of Science

3 (33.3%)

2 (100%)

1 (14.3%)

• Number of named tools for which a citation search did not find a relevant article

1 (11.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (14.3%)

• Number of unnamed tools for which at least one relevant article was found

2 (22.2%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (28.6%)

Citation Search—reference checking on identified relevant articles (N = 5 tools)c

 Subtotal—Number of tools with relevant articles for which we performed a search of their reference list

5/31 (16.1%)

0/12 (0.0%)

5/19 (26.3%)

• Number of tools for which at least one additional relevant article was found

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Total number of toolsd

31

12/3 (38.7%)

19/31 (61.3%)

  1. Bold values refer to the total or subtotal number of tools for each search method and/or type of tool (PROM or non-PROM).
  2. aThe sensitive filter was used for the “Role Based Performance Scale” because the precise filter did not identify any records. bReference checks could not be performed on four tools (two PROMS (“Art of Medicine survey” [19] and “American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) questionnaire” [18]) and two Non-PROMs (“Questionnaire on Computer Systems and Decision making” [34] and “Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire” [29])) because there were no included articles.cOnly the searches for which we used the precise filter resulted in relevant articles. dThe subtotals for the searches performed using the OMP filter (both versions) and citation search do not add up to 31 because we performed additional citation searches when the OMP filter (both versions) search did not locate an article