 "...[this book] brings together widely scattered information on health measurement techniques; a practical reference guide by Ian McDowell ... it helps readers choose, administer, and score available questionnaires & rating scales. Reviewing 50 measurement instruments, it describes their purpose and conceptual basis, reliability and validity, and shows a copy of the scale." see free PDF : dean.giustini@ubc.ca
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Last Update
 2 May 2013
Canadian filter - OvidSP MEDLINE & EMBASE 
see also Aboriginal health search filter  | Filters (ie. hedges) | Psychosocial instruments filter | PubMed and OvidSP shortcuts & command language
The following filter works in OvidSP MEDLINE and EMBASE:
- exp canada/
- canada.cp.
- (canada or canadian$ or alberta or british columbia or columbie britannique).af.
- (saskatchewan or manitoba or ontario or quebec or new brunswick or nouveau brunswick).af.
- (nova scotia or nouvelle ecosse or prince edward island or ile du prince edward or newfoundland or terre neuve or labrador or nun?v?t or nun?v?t or nwt or territoires du nord ouest or northwest territories or yukon).af.
- (canada or canadian$ or alberta or british columbia or col?mbie brit?an?ique).in,jw,nw,jx.
- (saskatchewan or manitoba or ontario or quebec or new brunswick or nouveau brunswick).in,jw,nw,jx.
- (nova scotia or nouvelle ecosse or prince edward island or ile du prince edward or ile du prince edouard or newfoundland or labrador or nun?v?t or nwt or northwest territories or territoires du nord ouest or yukon).in,jw,nw,jx.
- or/1-8
Canadian filter - OvidSP Databases Beyond MEDLINE & EMBASE
The following filter can be used for other OvidSP databases:
- (canada or canadian$ or alberta or british columbia or columbie britannique).mp,in,cp,pl,jx,jw,jn,so.
- (saskatchewan or manitoba or ontario or quebec or new brunswick or nouveau brunswick).mp,in,cp,pl,jx,jw,jn,so.
- (nova scotia or nouvelle ecosse or prince edward island or ile du prince edward or newfoundland or labrador or nun?v?t or nwt or northwest territories or territoires du nord ouest or yukon).mp,in,cp,pl,jx,jw,jn,so.
- 1 or 2 or 3
- (canada or canadian$ or alberta or british columbia or columbie britannique).af.
- (saskatchewan or manitoba or ontario or quebec or new brunswick or nouveau brunswick).af.
- (nova scotia or nouvelle ecosse or prince edward island or ile du prince edward or newfoundland or labrador or nun?v?t or nwt or northwest territories or territoires du nord ouest or yukon).af.
- 5 or 6 or 7
- 4 or 8
Canadian filter for PubMed
- ontario[ad] OR ontario OR quebec[ad] OR quebec OR newfoundland[ad] OR newfoundland OR labrador[ad] OR labrador OR new brunswick[ad] OR new brunswick OR nova Scotia[ad] OR nova scotia OR prince Edward Island[ad] OR prince edward island OR PEI[ad] OR PEI OR manitoba[ad] OR manitoba OR saskatchewan[ad] OR saskatchewan OR alberta[ad] OR alberta OR british columbia[ad] OR british columbia OR nunavut[ad] OR nunavut OR yukon[ad] OR yukon OR north west territories[ad] OR North West Territories OR canada[ad] OR canada OR canadian[ad] OR canadian* (thanks to Lynn Dunikowski)
- consider adding French equivalents e.g., "ile du prince edouard" and "colombie britanique" OR "colombie britannique"
Tip
- These were created to be exhaustive, so non-Canadian info will get retrieved, but that’s just a fact of life when one needs to be exhaustive.
- It may seem redundant to have to search .af. and the other fields but I found that .af. doesn’t really cover ‘all fields’, e.g. if I search canada.in. in one set and then search canada.af. in another set and OR the two sets together, I get a greater number than what’s in the canada.af. set.
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