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. 2022 Nov 18;30(1):4–18. doi: 10.1111/jvh.13770

TABLE 1.

Search strategy

Database Search Strategy
Medline
  1. Exp Hepatitis B/ or exp Hepatitis B virus/ or exp Hepatitis B, Chronic/ or hepatitis b.mp.

  2. Exp Refugees/ or refugee$.mp

  3. Asylum seeker$.mp

  4. Internally displaced.mp

  5. (displaced population or displaced people or displaced person$).mp

  6. Forced migrant.mp

  7. Undocumented migrant.mp

  8. (Prevalence or screening or epidemiology).mp

  9. 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7

  10. 1 and 9

  11. 8 and 10

Embase
  1. Exp hepatitis B/ or exp Hepatitis B virus/ or hepatitis B.mp.

  2. Exp refugee camp/ or refugee.mp. or exp refugee/ or exp refugee crisis/

  3. Exp forced migrant/

  4. Exp internally displaced person/

  5. Exp forced migration/

  6. Exp asylum seeker/ or asylum seeker.mp

  7. Displaced person$.mp.

  8. 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7

  9. 1 and 8

  10. (prevalence or screening or epidemiology).mp.

  11. 9 and 10

Scopus (TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“hepatitis B") OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“hepatitis b virus”) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“chronic hepatitis B")) AND (TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(refugee$) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“displaced person$”) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“asylum seeker$”) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“displaced people”) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(“displaced population”)) AND (TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(prevalence) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(screening) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(rate$) OR TITLE‐ABS‐KEY(epidemiology)) AND NOT INDEX(medline)
Cochrane

#1 (hepatitis B) OR (hepatitis B virus) OR (chronic hepatitis B):ti,ab,kw

#2 refugee* OR (refugee camp) OR (asylum seeker*) OR (displaced person) OR (displaced population) OR (forced migrant*)

#3 MeSH descriptor: [Refugees] explode all trees

#4 #1 AND (#2 OR #3)

Virtual Health Library ((hepatitis B) OR (hepatitis B virus) OR (chronic hepatitis B)) AND (refugee OR (asylum seeker) OR (forced migrant) OR (displaced person) OR (displaced people) OR (displaced population)) AND (prevalence OR epidemiology OR screening OR rate)