Vitor SN, Duarte MZ, Mascarenhas SF

Language: Portugués
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ABSTRACT

It aims to develop a methodological pathway for the retrieval of scientific information on neglected tropical diseases in international databases (Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed). The methodological procedures performed in this work were: a) identification of the main tropical diseases according to the World Health Organization; b) conversion of the names of the diseases in standardized terms from the Descriptors in Health Sciences of the Virtual Health Library (DeCS), c) the construction of two lists: one with the standard terms associated with Boolean operators, and the other with the nonstandard terms; d) search for information in the main databases previously mentioned in a standardized and non-standardized way; e) comparison of the results obtained between standardized and non-standardized search; f) methodological flow construction for replication purposes. As a main result it was observed that the use of the standardized search increased the recall of the information retrieval process, and Scopus was the basis that presented a more significant increase in the retrieval of results (11.28 %). PubMed had an increase in recall of 8.92 % and Web of Science of 2.64 %. In addition, it is proposed in this work a flow for the retrieval of the information in the mentioned bases, that can be useful to all the researchers who wish to obtain scientific information on this subject, since it is understood that the high degree of variability of the words and the dispersion in the representation of the theme in the bases constitutes the important impediment for the information retrieval.