Table B.5.

Description of the literature search of research articles on metabolic disorders

Keyword combination of the ‘topic search’	TS = ((dairy AND cow* OR cattle) AND (ketosis OR acidosis OR metabolic OR abomasum OR FPR) AND (pasture OR “hous*”) NOT (goats or sheep or “buffalo*”)) “and “TS = ((dairy AND cow* OR cattle) AND (ketosis OR acidosis OR metabolic OR abomasum OR FPR OR hypocalcemia) AND (pasture OR “hous*” OR stall) NOT (goats or giraffe or sheep or “buffalo*” or beef or steer)
Defined time period	1 January 2010 and current (2022‐05‐10) in order to focus on present housing systems and practices
Exclusion criteria	–exclusion of proceedings, book chapters and editorial material exclusion of articles in a language other than English or German, –exclusion of articles from other countries than Europe, United States and Canada, –exclusion of articles on husbandry systems or practices other than identified under Tor1, –exclusion of articles published in categories other than agricultural animal sciences and veterinary sciences, –exclusion of other topics: other topics: breeding, feeding, fertility and other welfare indicators, milk production, mortality, description of management without associations to health, –exclusion of other study design than observational/epidemiological studies and experimental studies: surveys of farmer's attitudes, economical calculations, –exclusion of review articles.
Outcome	Out of 131 search results of articles, 7 research articles were identified as relevant. From citations in the selected literature and from additional searches with a subset of keywords given above, 8 additional papers were included. In summary, 15 research articles were reviewed.