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Table 2 Search strategy

From: Complications associated with pre-hospital open thoracostomies: a rapid review

 

Terms

Scopus

CINAHL

Medline

Embase

1

Pre*hospital

73 661

18 419

12 588

17 439

2

Out-of-hospital

52 710

6 787

12 624

18 749

3

$ SH/MeSH

N/A

13 537

47 783

48 802

4

OR/1–3

109 233

23 647

61 641

78 986

5

Thoracostom*

6 926

773

2 325

3 262

6

$ SH/MeSH

N/A

1 181

2 997

1 243

7

OR/5–6

N/A

1 712

3 018

3 790

8

Iatrogeni*

207 270

8 983

32 791

44 850

9

Complication*

3 097 082

675 868

947 927

1 390 713

10

Adverse

1 799 456

583 316

534 469

831 783

11

Infection

4 805 210

384 789

1 142 202

1 458 125

12

Sepsis

436 334

31 176

100 668

156 477

13

Empy*ema

30 485

1 605

9 686

11 618

14

Bronchiectas*

36 202

2 132

10 000

16 054

15

Pain

2 147 032

322 318

649 788

969 019

16

$ SH/MeSH

N/A

35 595

103 346

489 506

17

OR/8–16

N/A

1 624 316

3 090 405

4 448 115

18

Delay*

2 801 825

106 906

493 565

670 336

19

Prolong*

1 427 447

56 571

389 541

524 377

20

OR/18 + 19

N/A

159 064

856 233

1 155 597

21

Healing

907 080

73 579

183 322

234 950

22

Recovery

3 017 527

106 412

463 874

614 261

23

OR/21 + 22

N/A

164 306

640 509

839 667

24

AND/20 + 23

517 883

11 516

55 984

79 312

25

$ SH/MeSH

N/A

54 375

92 138

439 343

26

OR/24 + 25

N/A

65 458

147 171

515 468

27

OR/17 + 26

10 240 619

1 656 484

3 180 724

4 756 714

28

AND/4 + 7 + 27

31

31

47

49

  1. $ SH/MeSH/Terms = Subject headings/MeSH
  2. For Scopus: N/A
  3. For CINAHL: (3) “Prehospital Care”; (6) “Thoracostomy +”; (16) “Postoperative Hemorrhage” OR “Postoperative Pain” OR “Surgical Wound Infection” OR “Iatrogenic Disease”; (25) “Treatment Duration” OR “Length of Stay”
  4. For Medline: (3) Emergency Medical Services/; (6) Thoracostomy/; (16) Iatrogenic Disease/or Pain, Postoperative/or Postoperative Haemorrhage/or Surgical Wound Infection/; (25) Duration of Therapy/or Length of Stay/
  5. For Embase: (3) Emergency care/; (6) Thoracostomy/; (16) Postoperative complication/OR Postoperative haemorrhage/or Postoperative infection/OR Postoperative inflammation/OR Postoperative pain/OR Surgical infection/OR Surgical injury/; (25) Treatment duration/OR “Length of stay”/