Table A1.
Database | Search string |
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Medline | Focus on ethics: |
(("Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Human Rights"[Mesh] OR "ethics"[Subheading])) AND ((((((((((((("Health Services Accessibility"[Mesh])) OR (("Continuity of Patient Care"[Mesh]))) OR (("Drugs, Investigational/supply and distribution"[Mesh]))) OR ((post-trial provision))) OR ((post-trial obligations))) OR ((post-trial access))) OR ((post-trial benefits))) OR ((post-trial responsibility))) OR ((follow-up)))) AND ((((("Clinical Trials as Topic"[Mesh])) OR (("Biomedical research"[Mesh]))) OR (("Human experimentation"[Mesh])))))) | |
Focus on developing countries: | |
((((("Vulnerable Populations"[MeSH Terms])) OR (("Developing Countries"[Mesh])))) AND (((("Patient Advocacy"[MeSH Terms])) OR (("Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Human Rights"[Mesh] OR "ethics"[Subheading]))))) AND (((((((("clinical trials as topic"[Mesh])) OR (("Human Experimentation"[Mesh]))) OR (("Biomedical Research"[MeSH Terms]))) OR (("Drugs, Investigational/supply and distribution"[Mesh])))) OR (("Research/organization and administration"[Mesh])))) | |
Disjunction of terms used to refer to PTA in included publications: a | |
“post-trial provision” or “post-trial obligation” or “post-trial obligations” or “post-trial access” or “posttrial access” or “post-trial benefit” or “post-trial benefits” or “post-trial responsibility” or “post-trial responsibilities” or “prior agreements” | |
Westlaw | “post-trial access” |
JSTOR | “post-trial obligation” |
Scidev.net | “post-trial responsibility” |
LocatorPlus | “post-trial obligations” |
Euroethics | “reasonable availability” |
“post-trial provision” | |
“Post-trial follow-up” | |
“after the trial" and research and drug | |
ETHXweb | post-trial |
Ethos-Beta Electronic Theses Online Service | post-trial (any field) and (ethics (any field) or bioethics (any field)) |
WorldCat Dissertations | “post-trial access” (keyword) |
“after research” (keyword) | |
“post-trial” (keyword) | |
exploitation and “clinical research” |
aThese terms also included post-trial followup, after participation or aftercare, but we excluded them from the search string because the resulting searches were insufficiently specific.