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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Sports Med. 2012 Jun 28;46(14):979–988. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2011-090895

Table 1.

Stepped PubMed/EBSCO host search strategy with the number of studies

Step Strategy PubMed EBSCO
#17 Search (#11) AND (#16) 390 59
#16 Search (#12) OR (#13) OR (#14) OR (#15) 23899 18522
#15 Search ‘preventing’ [TIAB] 4916 996
#14 Search ‘preventive’ [TIAB] 2373 2143
#13 Search ‘prevent’ [TIAB] 8219 1660
#12 Search ‘prevention’ [TIAB] 12956 1367
#11 Search(#5) AND (#10) 4151 2185
#10 Search (#6) OR (#7) OR (#8) OR (#9) 73052 62290
#9 Search ‘female’ [TIAB] 14981 15682
#8 Search ‘training’ [TIAB] 9806 24398
#7 Search ‘neuromuscular’ [TIAB] 1412 2278
#6 Search ‘prospective’ [TIAB] 50692 20738
#5 Search (#1) OR (#2) OR (#3) OR (#4) 12480 53232
#4 Search ‘ACL’ [TIAB] 411 1001
#3 Search ‘anterior cruciate ligament’ [TIAB] 554 4001
#2 Search ‘knee’ [TIAB] 4827 17026
#1 Search ‘injury’ [TIAB] 7824 33140

Date were limited from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2011. Language was limited in English. Species were limited in humans. Sex was limited in female. CINAHL, MEDLINE and SPORT Discus were included in the EBSCO search. TIAB, title and abstract.

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