For example, when searching over the PubMed database, we get 125,000. But PubMed has some limitation that just allow us to screen until 1000 results. Do anyone come across this situation, and what you do to solve this issue, or anyway to report the results?
PubMed allows you to export the first 10,000 results to a citation manager - click on the 'send to' button at the top of the search results. There are also other options to for export the results that may be more relevant to you.
However, you have to bear in mind the time it takes to screen the results. If you screen one result per minute, that is 420 results in a standard 7hr workday. Meaning to screen 125,000 would take 298 days. Obviously, this is not feasible.
Use more search terms, Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR), and search filters to get your results to about 1000. That is reasonable for a systematic review.
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