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. 2023 Jul 19;25(8):841–850. doi: 10.1007/s11886-023-01905-7

Table 2.

Combination of keywords used with boolean operators

Database String Limits Results
Medline (PubMed)

Search: (takotsubo) AND (nursing role)

(“takotsubo”[All Fields] OR “takotsubo s”[All Fields]) AND ((“nursing”[MeSH Terms] OR “nursing”[All Fields] OR “nursings”[All Fields] OR “nursing”[MeSH Subheading] OR “nursing s”[All Fields]) AND (“role”[MeSH Terms] OR “role”[All Fields]))

None 7
Medline (PubMed)

Search: (takotsubo) AND (nurse)

(“takotsubo”[All Fields] OR “takotsubo s”[All Fields]) AND (“nurse s”[All Fields] OR “nurses”[MeSH Terms] OR “nurses”[All Fields] OR “nurse”[All Fields] OR “nurses s”[All Fields])

None 18
Medline (PubMed)

Search: (emergency room) AND (tako tsubo)

(“emergency service, hospital”[MeSH Terms] OR (“emergency”[All Fields] AND “service”[All Fields] AND “hospital”[All Fields]) OR “hospital emergency service”[All Fields] OR (“emergency”[All Fields] AND “room”[All Fields]) OR “emergency room”[All Fields]) AND (“tako”[All Fields] AND “tsubo”[All Fields])

None 15
Medline (PubMed)

Search: (tako tsubo) AND (emergency)

“tako”[All Fields] AND “tsubo”[All Fields] AND (“emerge”[All Fields] OR “emerged”[All Fields] OR “emergence”[All Fields] OR “emergences”[All Fields] OR “emergencies”[MeSH Terms] OR “emergencies”[All Fields] OR “emergency”[All Fields] OR “emergent”[All Fields] OR “emergently”[All Fields] OR “emergents”[All Fields] OR “emerges”[All Fields] OR “emerging”[All Fields])

None 82
Scopus (Title-abs-key (takotsubo AND nurse) AND title-abs-key (emergency room) None 8
Google Scholar Takotsubo and nurse and emergency room AND nursing role Scientific articles 2420
Web of Science (WOS) Takotsubo (All Fields) and nurse (All Fields) None 7