Table 3.
Frequency of spinal terms in titles, abstracts, and four databases
| Spinal Terms Used in Search Strategies | Titles n = 38 | Abstracts n = 371 | MEDLINE (mh) n = 292 | MANTIS (de) n = 282 | CINAHL (sh) n = 132 | Web of Science n = 262,3,4 |
| Cervical vertebrae [mh] [sh] [de] / cervical | 10 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| Lumbar vertebrae [mh] [sh] [de] /lumbar | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| Neck [mh] [sh] [de] | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Para-spine, para-spinal | 1 | |||||
| Spine [mh] [sh] [de] / Spinal | 14 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| Thoracic vertebrae [mh] [sh] [de] / thoracic | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Vertebral | 2 | 4 | 4 |
[mh] = Medical Subject Headings in MEDLINE; [pt] = publication type in MEDLINE; [sh] = Subject Heading in CINAHL [de] = Descriptor in MANTIS Note: 1One study did not have an abstract online. 2Not all studies had abstracts. 3Web of Science does not have a controlled vocabulary. 4Eleven studies had no keywords generated. * is a truncation symbol for a wild card search in PubMed and Web of Science.