Table 2.

Feasibility of yield of literature of pilot electronic search for prevalence and risk factors of gross neurologic deficits among children after severe malaria in MEDLINE

Search number (Database)	Search terms (and date)	Number of hitsa (Relevant)
#1 MEDLINE	exp child/ or (children or pre-school or infant or infants).ti,ab,kf. AND exp Malaria, Cerebral/ or ((cerebral adj3 malaria) or severe malaria or impaired consciousness or acidosis or respiratory distress or multiple convulsions or prostration or repeated seizures or multiple seizures or hypoglycaemia or severe anaemia or severe anemia or renal impairment or acute kidney injury or jaundice or pulmonary oedema or significant bleeding or abnormal bleeding or shock or hyperparasitaemia or hyperlactataemia).ti,ab,kf. AND (“nervous system disease*” or “Brain Disease*” or (“neuro* complicat*” or “neuro* impair*” or “neuro* deficit*” or “neuro* sequelae”)).ti,ab,kf. AND exp Prognosis/ or exp Risk Factors/ or prevalence/ or (prevalence or frequen* or risk or prognos* or predict* or epidemiological or associat*).ti,ab,kf.	a755 (b37, 4.9%)

^aNumber of article titles and abstracts as at 6 September 2023

^bSorted by relevance and initial screening of titles and abstracts