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. 2023 Aug 14;15(8):4530–4543. doi: 10.21037/jtd-23-325

Table 1. The search strategy and exclusion/inclusion criteria.

Items Specifications
Database PsychInfo, EMBASE (Ovid), MEDLINE (Ovid)
Search strategy “sleep* onset” OR “sleep* initiation” OR “wake/sleep transition*”)] AND [detect* or assess* or measure* or estimate*
Limits Year: 1970–2022; species: human; age: >18 years; only in English

*, used with distinctive word stems allows variations of a term with less typing to be retrieved.