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. 2014 Feb 4;9(2):e87987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087987

Table 1. Search strategy PubMed.

#1 Search "Stroke"[Mesh] OR cva[tiab] OR cvas[tiab] OR poststroke*[tiab] OR stroke*[tiab] OR apoplex*[tiab]
#2 Search (((brain*[tiab] OR cerebr*[tiab] OR cerebell*[tiab] OR intracran*[tiab] OR intracerebral[tiab] OR vertebrobasilar[tiab]) AND vascular*[tiab]) OR cerebrovascular*[tiab]) AND (disease[tiab] OR diseases[tiab] OR accident*[tiab] OR disorder*[tiab])
#3 Search (brain*[tiab] OR cerebr*[tiab] OR cerebell*[tiab] OR intracran*[tiab] OR intracerebral[tiab] OR vertebrobasilar[tiab]) AND (haemorrhag*[tiab] OR hemorrhag*[tiab] OR ischemi*[tiab] OR ischaemi*[tiab] OR infarct*[tiab] OR haematoma*[tiab] or hematoma*[tiab] or bleed*[tiab])
#4 Search "Hemiplegia"[Mesh] OR "Paresis"[Mesh] OR (hemipleg*[tiab] OR hemipar*[tiab] OR paresis[tiab] OR paretic[tiab])
#5 Search #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4
#6 Search "Occupational Therapy"[MeSH] OR "Physical Therapy Modalities"[MeSH] OR "Rehabilitation"[MeSH] OR "Exercise Therapy"[Mesh] OR "Exercise Movement Techniques"[Mesh] OR "Physical Therapy (Specialty)"[MeSH] OR "Recovery of Function"[Mesh] OR "rehabilitation"[SH] OR rehabilitati*[tiab] OR physiotherap*[tiab] OR (physical[tiab] AND (therapy[tiab] OR therapies[tiab] OR activity[tiab] OR activities[tiab])) OR exercis*[tiab] OR training[tiab] OR (occupational[tiab] AND (therapy[tiab] OR therapies[tiab]))
#7 Search (review*[tiab] OR search*[tiab] OR survey*[tiab] OR handsearch*[tiab] OR hand-search*[tiab]) AND (databa*[tiab] OR data-ba*[tiab] OR bibliograph*[tiab] OR electronic*[tiab] OR medline*[tiab] OR pubmed*[tiab] OR embase*[tiab] OR Cochrane[tiab] OR cinahl[tiab] OR psycinfo[tiab] OR psychinfo[tiab] OR cinhal[tiab] OR "web of science"[tiab] OR "web of knowledge"[tiab] OR ebsco[tiab] OR ovid[tiab] OR mrct[tiab] OR metaregist*[tiab] OR meta-regist*[tiab] OR ((predetermined[tiab] OR pre-determined[tiab]) AND criteri*[tiab]) OR apprais*[tiab] OR inclusion criteri*[tiab] OR exclusion criteri*[tiab]) OR (review[pt] AND systemat*[tiab]) OR "systematic review"[tiab] OR "systematic literature"[tiab] OR "integrative review"[tiab] OR "integrative literature"[tiab] OR "evidence-based review"[tiab] OR "evidence-based overview"[tiab] OR "evidence-based literature"[tiab] OR "evidence-based survey"[tiab] OR "literature search"[tiab] OR ((systemat*[ti] OR evidence-based[ti]) AND (review*[ti] OR literature[ti] OR overview[ti] OR survey[ti])) OR "data synthesis"[tiab] OR "evidence synthesis"[tiab] OR "data extraction"[tiab] OR "data source"[tiab] OR "data sources"[tiab] OR "study selection"[tiab] OR "methodological quality"[tiab] OR "methodologic quality"[tiab] OR cochrane database syst rev[ta] OR meta-analy*[tiab] OR metaanaly*[tiab] OR metanaly*[tiab] OR meta-analysis[pt] OR meta-synthesis[tiab] OR metasynthesis[tiab] OR meta-study[tiab] OR metastudy[tiab] OR metaethnograph*[tiab] OR meta-ethnograph*[tiab] OR Technology Assessment, Biomedical[mh] OR hta[tiab] OR health technol assess [ta] OR evid rep technol assess summ[ta] OR health technology assessment[tiab]
#8 Search randomized controlled trial[pt] OR controlled clinical trial[pt] OR randomized[tiab] OR placebo[tiab] OR drug therapy[sh] OR randomly[tiab] OR trial[tiab] OR groups[tiab] OR "cross over"[tiab] OR "Cross-Over Studies"[Mesh]
#9 Search #7 OR #8
#10 Search #5 AND #6 AND #9 NOT (animal[mh] NOT human [mh])