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. 2014 May 2;3:42. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-42

Table 2.

Generic search strategy

ID Term Description
1
brux*
Search for any word with ‘brux’ as its stem.
2
*bruxism/OR *sleep bruxism/
Search for the keywords or subject headings ‘bruxism’ or ‘sleep bruxism’.
3 1 AND 2  

Because of poorly defined and unstandardised terminology, we elected to use a simple, sensitivity- maximising search strategy.