Search Strategy

Ethan Balk; Gowri Raman; Mei Chung; Stanley Ip; Athina Tatsioni; Alvaro Alonso; Bruce Kupelnick; Priscilla Chew; Deirdre DeVine; Scott Gilbert; Joseph Lau

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Appendix ASearch Strategy

Publication Details

MEDLINE 1966-August Week 4 2005

Table

Publication Details

Copyright

Publisher

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US), Rockville (MD)

NLM Citation

Balk E, Raman G, Chung M, et al. Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006 Oct. (Comparative Effectiveness Reviews, No. 5.) Appendix A, Search Strategy.

#	Search History	Results
1	exp Hypertension, Renal/	15140
2	exp Renal Artery Obstruction/	7388
3	renal arter$ stenosis.tw.	3264
4	renal arter$ dis$.tw.	390
5	renovascular dis$.tw.	613
6	reno vascular dis$.tw.	6
7	renal vascular dis$.tw.	156
8	(arvd or “atherosclerotic renovascular dis$”).tw.	302
9	renal steno$.tw.	49
10	steno$ kidney.tw.	137
11	renovascular steno$.tw.	27
12	or/1–11	20249
13	limit 12 to humans	15628
14	limit 13 to english language limit 14 to (addresses or bibliography or biography or case reports or congresses or consensus development conference or consensus development conference, nih or	10148
15	dictionary or directory or editorial or festschrift or government publications or interview or lectures or legal cases or legislation or letter or news or newspaper article or patient education handout or periodical index or “review of reported cases”)	2736
16	14 not 15	7412
17	limit 16 to “all adult (19 plus years)”	4222
18	16 not 17	3190
19	limit 18 to “all child (0 to 18 years)”	488
20	16 not 19	6924
21	limit 20 to (guideline or practice guideline or “review” or review, academic or “review literature” or review, multicase or review, tutorial)	1316
22	limit 20 to meta analysis	8
23	20 not (21 or 22)	5601
24	follow-up studies/	303611
25	(follow-up or followup).tw.	332435
26	exp Case-Control Studies/	288665
27	(case adj20 control).tw.	43581
28	exp Longitudinal Studies/	498762
29	longitudinal.tw.	61304
30	exp Cohort Studies/	536922
31	cohort.tw.	70605
32	(random$ or rct).tw.	315873
33	exp Randomized Controlled Trials/	38577
34	exp random allocation/	53586
35	exp Double-Blind Method/	82631
36	exp Single-Blind Method/	9171
37	randomized controlled trial.pt.	204593
38	clinical trial.pt.	412355
39	controlled clinical trials/	2929
40	(clin$ adj trial$).tw.	88180
41	((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj (blind$ or mask$)).tw.	79196
42	exp PLACEBOS/	23902
43	placebo$.tw.	90025
44	exp Research Design/	194218
45	exp Evaluation Studies/	529271
46	exp Prospective Studies/	190597
47	exp Comparative Study/	1211784
48	or/24–47	2748065
49	23 and 48	2167