#	Searches	Results
1	exp Coronary Artery Disease/	211560
2	exp Myocardial Infarction/ use mesz	133322
3	exp heart infarction/ use emez	216531
4	(coronary artery disease or cad or heart attack).ti.	44367
5	((myocardi* or heart or cardiac or coronary) adj2 (atheroscleros* or arterioscleros* or infarct*)).ti.	149359
6	or/1-5	538869
7	exp Atrial Fibrillation/ use mesz	27983
8	exp heart atrium fibrillation/ use emez	55357
9	((atrial or atrium or auricular) adj1 fibrillation*).ti,ab.	73222
10	or/7-9	99066
11	exp heart failure/	300018
12	((myocardi* or heart or cardiac) adj2 (failure or decompensation or insufficiency)).ti,ab.	233907
13	11 or 12	380815
14	exp Stroke/	177469
15	exp Ischemic Attack, Transient/ use mesz	16352
16	exp transient ischemic attack/ use emez	19630
17	exp stroke patient/ use emez	5626
18	exp brain infarction/ or exp cerebrovascular accident/ use emez	100838
19	(stroke or tia or transient ischemic attack or cerebrovascular apoplexy or cerebrovascular accident or cerebrovascular infarct* or brain infarct* or CVA).ti,ab.	280281
20	or/14-19	390464
21	exp Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ use mesz	67951
22	exp non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus/ use emez	101327
23	exp diabetic patient/ use emez	12828
24	(diabetes or diabetic* or niddm or t2dm).ti,ab.	763121
25	or/21-24	787988
26	exp Skin Ulcer/	71910
27	((pressure or bed or skin) adj2 (ulcer* or sore* or wound*)).ti,ab.	28604
28	(decubitus or bedsore*).ti,ab.	8513
29	or/26-28	90561
30	exp Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/ use mesz	16974
31	exp chronic obstructive lung disease/ use emez	54556
32	(chronic obstructive adj2 (lung* or pulmonary or airway* or airflow or respiratory) adj (disease* or disorder*)).ti,ab.	54256
33	(copd or coad).ti,ab.	45380
34	chronic airflow obstruction.ti,ab.	1062
35	exp Emphysema/	37368
36	exp chronic bronchitis/ use emez	6962
37	((chronic adj2 bronchitis) or emphysema).ti,ab.	50761
38	or/30-37	158839
39	exp Chronic Disease/	340238
40	(chronic*adj2 disease* or (chronic* adj2 ill*)).ti,ab.	32284
41	39 or 40	358737
42	exp Comorbidity/	143035
43	(comorbid* or co-morbid* or multimorbid* or multi-morbid* or (complex* adj patient*) or “patient* with multiple” or (multiple adj2 (condition* or disease*))).ti,ab.	202574
44	42 or 43	283057
45	6 or 10 or 13 or 20 or 25 or 29 or 38 or 41 or 44	2703456
46	exp Self Care/ use mesz	33960
47	Self-Help Groups/ use mesz	7150
48	exp Consumer Participation/ use mesz	27930
49	Self Efficacy/ use mesz	9213
50	exp Self Care/ use emez	39454
51	Self Concept/ use emez	49189
52	Self Injection/ use emez	709
53	Self Monitoring/ use emez	2895
54	Patient Participation/ use emez	13365
55	Empowerment/ use emez	1619
56	(selfadminist* or selfcar* or selfinject* or selfmanag* or selfmeasur* or selfmedicat* or selfmonitor* or selfregulat* or selftest* or selftreat*).ti,ab.	1197
57	(self-administ* or self-car* or self-inject* or self-manag* or self-measur* or self-medicat* or self-monitor* or self-regulat* or self-test*OR self-treat*).ti,ab.	106600
58	(selfactivation or selfdevelop* or selfintervention).ti,ab.	11
59	(self-activation or self-develop* or self-intervention).ti,ab.	1876
60	((patient? or consumer?) adj 3 (activation or coach* or empowerment or involv* or participat*)).ti,ab.	115250
61	health coach*.ti,ab.	200
62	((behaviour* adj (coach* or modif*)) or (behavior* adj (coach* or modif*))).ti,ab.	6962
63	(dsmp or cdsmp or dsme or smp or sme or smt).ti,ab.	5738
64	(medication? adherence adj5 self*).ti,ab.	497
65	or/46-64	375121
66	45 and 65	56078
67	exp Technology Assessment, Biomedical/ or exp Evidence-based Medicine/ use mesz	63340
68	exp Biomedical Technology Assessment/ or exp Evidence Based Medicine/ use emez	522432
69	(health technology adj2 assess*).ti,ab.	3053
70	exp Random Allocation/ or exp Double-Blind Method/ or exp Control Groups/ or exp Placebos/ use mesz	378960
71	Randomized Controlled Trial/ or exp Randomization/ or exp RANDOM SAMPLE/ or Double Blind Procedure/ or exp Triple Blind Procedure/ or exp Control Group/ or exp PLACEBO/ use emez	900130
72	(random* or RCT).ti,ab.	1252730
73	(placebo* or sham*).ti,ab.	413329
74	(control* adj2 clinical trial*).ti,ab.	35016
75	meta analysis/ use emez	58505
76	(meta analy* or metaanaly* or pooled analysis or (systematic* adj2 review*) or published studies or published literature or medline or embase or data synthesis or data extraction or cochrane).ti,ab.	251967
77	or/67-76	2160203
78	limit 66 to (controlled clinical trial or meta analysis or randomized controlled trial)	6134
79	66 and 77	12038
80	or/78-79	12410
81	limit 80 to yr=“2000 -Current”	10499
82	Case Reports/ or Comment.pt. or Editorial.pt. or Letter.pt. use mesz	2907283
83	Case Report/ or Editorial/ or Letter/ or Conference Abstract.pt. use emez	5789547
84	or/82-83	5893868
85	81 not 84 limit 85 to english language Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1946 to January Week 1 2012> (3625)	9453
86	Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations <January 13, 2012> (193) Embase <1980 to 2012 Week 02> (5011)	8829