SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 1.

Summary of search strategies for key databases

KEYWORD	FINAL SEARCH STRATEGYa
Schizophrenia	Schizophrenia[Title/Abstract] OR “Schizophrenia”[Majr]
Outcome assessment	“Outcome Assessment, Health care”[MeSH:NoExp]
Quality of life	“Quality of Life”[MeSH]
Patient-reported outcome measures	“Patient Reported Outcome Measures”[MeSH:NoExp] OR (“patient-reported outcomes”[Title/Abstract] OR “patient reported outcomes” [Title/Abstract])

Note: 4 key databases were selected: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, and International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR; through Value in Health). The search strategy was first established and refined for PubMed, and then adapted to the other databases. Where possible, searches were limited to English language only studies published in or after 2010.

^aMeSH terms were only used in PubMed search.

NoExp: turn off explosion of MeSH headings; Majr: to search a MeSH heading that is a major topic of an article;

MeSH: medical search headings