I think this ranks even higher than my previous complaint about each click on the sidebar corresponding to a single line in the history. This is annoying because if you have to select a whole bunch of publication types, each one takes up a whole line in the search history, and if you're doing a long search, if you get beyond 100 lines in your search history, the first search lines start disappearing. So each line in the history is precious!
However, there is a fairly easy fix for that - just make your own copy-and-paste search strategies for PubMed. Here are some of mine:
Reviews
& Guidelines
Review[ptyp] OR systematic[sb] OR Guideline[ptyp]
Guidelines
Guideline[ptyp] OR "Consensus Development Conference"[ptyp]
All types
of studies including case reports:
"Study Characteristics"[ptyp]
Trials
and Studies – no case reports
"Clinical Trial"[ptyp] OR "Comparative
Study"[ptyp] OR "Evaluation Studies"[ptyp] OR
"Meta-Analysis"[ptyp] OR "Twin Study"[ptyp] OR
"Validation Studies"[ptyp]
It's annoying to have to copy and paste in the canned strategies, yes. But the thing that makes the Languages filter problem so much worse is that it's really a no-brainer. Did someone click the wrong button, or what?
