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. 2010 Jun 11;12(2):e18. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1350

Table 2.

Search strategy for gray literature

Database/ Search Engine Search String: Hits Relevanta Includedb
Google “health 2.0” OR “health2.0” OR “health20” 482000 28 13
“medicine 2.0” OR “medicine2.0” OR “medicine20” 155000 24 16
“what is health 2.0” OR “what is health 2.0” OR “what is health20” 99 29 25
“what is medicine 2.0” OR “what is Medicine 2.0” OR “what is medicine 20” 33 14 14
Bing “health 2.0” OR “health2.0” OR “health20” 328000 4 4
“medicine 2.0” OR “medicine2.0” OR “medicine20” 62300 8 6
“what is health 2.0” OR “what is health 2.0” OR “what is health20” 477 26 24
“what is medicine 2.0” OR “what is medicine 2.0” OR “what is medicine 20” 31 12 11
Yahoo “health 2.0” OR “health2.0” OR “health20” 466000 17 9
“medicine 2.0” OR “medicine2.0” OR “medicine20” 45000 19 14
“what is health 2.0” OR “what is health 2.0” OR “what is health20” 583 21 21
“what is medicine 2.0” OR “what is medicine 2.0” OR “what is medicine 20” 121 14 12
Mednar “health 2.0” OR “health2.0” OR “health20” 329 27 10
“medicine 2.0” OR “medicine2.0” OR “medicine20” 12 13 5
Scopus TITLE-ABS-KEY(“what is health 2.0”) OR TITLE- ABS-KEY(“what is health2.0”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“what is health20”) 23 3 0
TITLE-ABS-KEY(“what is medicine 2.0”) OR TITLE- ABS-KEY(“what is medicine2.0”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“what is medicine20”) 0 0 0
Subtotal 1540008 262 184
Duplicates 149
Total 35

a Relevant: number of relevant articles based on title, abstract, and keywords in first 100 results

b Included: number of included articles based on full article