| MEDLINE (Ovid) Search Strategy |
| 1 fecal.ti,ab,hw. (38014) |
| 2 faecal.ti,ab,hw. (16604) |
| 3 feces.ti,ab,hw. (73832) |
| 4 1 or 2 or 3 (102056) |
| 5 exp immunoassay/ (403733) |
| 6 exp enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay/ (115110) |
| 7 immunochemi$.ti,ab,hw. (26200) |
| 8 exp Immunochemistry/ (238397) |
| 9 or/5-8 (617537) |
| 10 4 and 9 (4973) |
| 11 FIT.ti,ab,hw. (66545) |
| 12 guaiac.ti,ab,hw. (637) |
| 13 occult blood.ti,ab,hw. (5627) |
| 14 fobt$.ti,ab. (840) |
| 15 fob$.ti,ab. (1502) |
| 16 ifobt.ti,ab. (55) |
| 17 ifob$.ti,ab,hw. (58) |
| 18 or/7,10-17 (103072) |
| 19 Insure.mp. (2487) |
| 20 Inform.mp. (25162) |
| 21 19 or 20 (27634) |
| 22 18 and 21 (317) |
| 23 Instant-view.mp. (5) |
| 24 Instant View.mp. (5) |
| 25 Hemoccult.mp. (520) |
| 26 Immocare.mp. (3) |
| 27 Flexsure.mp. (28) |
| 28 Monohaem.mp. (33) |
| 29 Hemosure.mp. (1) |
| 30 Occultech.mp. (1) |
| 31 Quickvue.mp. (89) |
| 32 Clearview.mp. (86) |
| 33 Hemoquant.mp. (47) |
| 34 Hema screen.mp. (2) |
| 35 Hema-screen.mp. (2) |
| 36 Innovacon.mp. (1) |
| 37 OC-Micro.mp. (9) |
| 38 OC Micro.mp. (9) |
| 39 OC-Sensor.mp. (17) |
| 40 OC Sensor.mp. (17) |
| 41 OC-Hemodia.mp. (16) |
| 42 OC Hemodia.mp. (16) |
| 43 OC-Light.mp. (2) |
| 44 OC Light.mp. (2) |
| 45 Aimstep.mp. (0) |
| 46 Magstream.mp. (10) |
| 47 Immudia.mp. (6) |
| 48 or/18,22-47 (103377) |
| 49 exp “predictive value of tests”/ (125700) |
| 50 exp “Sensitivity and specificity”/ (371895) |
| 51 exp False Negative Reactions/ (15236) |
| 52 exp False Positive Reactions/ (23021) |
| 53 exp Reproducibility of Results/ (242180) |
| 54 exp Reference Values/ (138214) |
| 55 exp Diagnostic Errors/ (87977) |
| 56 exp Reference Standards/ (31448) |
| 57 exp Observer Variation/ (28598) |
| 58 exp Quality Assurance, Health Care/ (236607) |
| 59 standards.fs. (508061) |
| 60 sensitiv$.ti,ab. (882592) |
| 61 specificit$.ti,ab. (312517) |
| 62 predictive value.ti,ab. (50699) |
| 63 accurac$.ti,ab. (200813) |
| 64 false positive$.ti,ab. (39039) |
| 65 false negative$.ti,ab. (22776) |
| 66 miss rate$.ti,ab. (203) |
| 67 error rate$.ti,ab. (7478) |
| 68 detection rate$.ti,ab. (11682) |
| 69 diagnostic yield$.ti,ab. (4734) |
| 70 likelihood ratio$.ti,ab. (7576) |
| 71 odds ratio/and di.fs. (7310) |
| 72 diagnostic odds ratio$.ti,ab. (443) |
| 73 or/49-72 (2331963) |
| 74 48 and 73 (23874) |
| 75 exp Colorectal Neoplasms/ (134899) |
| 76 exp Colonic Neoplasms/ (63388) |
| 77 exp Sigmoid Neoplasms/ (3740) |
| 78 exp Rectal Neoplasms/ (35360) |
| 79 exp Intestinal Polyps/ (11351) |
| 80 exp Colonic Polyps/ (5666) |
| 81 colon cancer.ti,ab,hw. (26207) |
| 82 colonic cancer.ti,ab,hw. (2114) |
| 83 colorectal cancer.ti,ab,hw. (48264) |
| 84 colon neoplasm.ti,ab,hw. (35) |
| 85 colonic neoplasm.ti,ab,hw. (130) |
| 86 colorectal neoplasm.ti,ab,hw. (220) |
| 87 adenoma$.ti,ab,hw. (86623) |
| 88 colon polyp.ti,ab,hw. (157) |
| 89 colonic polyp.ti,ab,hw. (238) |
| 90 colorectal polyp.ti,ab,hw. (181) |
| 91 or/75-90 (223731) |
| 92 74 and 91 (1814) |
| 93 limit 92 to english language (1593) |
| 94 limit 93 to humans (1532) |
| 95 limit 94 to yr=”2008 - 2012” (447) |
| DARE, Cochrane Database, and HTA Search Strategy |
| #1 occult blood:kw |
| #2 “fecal occult blood”:ti,ab |
| #3 “faecal occult blood”:ti,ab |
| #4 “fecal immunochemical”:ti,ab |
| #5 “faecal immunochemical”:ti,ab |
| #6 fobt*:ti,ab |
| #7 ifobt*:ti,ab |
| #8 “instant-view”:ti,ab,kw |
| #9 “instant view”:ti,ab,kw |
| #10 “Hemoccult':ti,ab,kw |
| #11 “immocare”:ti,ab,kw |
| #12 “flexsure obt”:ti,ab,kw |
| #13 “monohaem”:ti,ab,kw |
| #14 “hemosure”:ti,ab,kw |
| #15 “hemoccult ict':ti,ab,kw |
| #16 “Occultech”:ti,ab,kw |
| #17 “Quickvue”:ti,ab,kw |
| #18 “clearview”:ti,ab,kw |
| #19 “hemoquant':ti,ab,kw |
| #20 “hema screen”:ti,ab,kw |
| #21 “hemascreen”:ti,ab,kw |
| #22 “hema-screen”:ti,ab,kw |
| #23 “innovacon”:ti,ab,kw |
| #24 “oc micro”:ti,ab,kw |
| #25 “oc-micro”:ti,ab,kw |
| #26 “oc sensor”:ti,ab,kw |
| #27 “oc-sensor”:ti,ab,kw |
| #28 “oc light”:ti,ab,kw |
| #29 “oc-light”:ti,ab,kw |
| #30 “oc hemodia”:ti,ab,kw |
| #31 “oc-hemodia”:ti,ab,kw |
| #32 “aimstep”:ti,ab,kw |
| #33 “magstream”:ti,ab,kw |
| #34 “immudia”:ti,ab,kw |
| #35 #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 or #24 or #25 or #26 or #27 or #28 or #29 or #30 or #31 or #32 or #33 or #34 |
| #36 “sensitivity”:kw |
| #37 “specificity”:kw |
| #38 “predictive value”:kw |
| #39 “roc”:kw |
| #40 receiver next operat*:kw |
| #41 false next negative:kw |
| #42 false next positive:kw |
| #43 diagnostic next error*:kw |
| #44 reproducibility:kw |
| #45 reference next value*:kw |
| #46 refererence next standards:kw |
| #47 diagnostic next accuracy:kw |
| #48 diagnostic next value:kw |
| #49 #36 or #37 or #38 or #39 or #40 or #41 or #42 or #43 or #44 or #45 or #46 or #47 or #48 |
| #50 #35 and #49 |
| #51 sensitiv*.ti,ab |
| #52 specificit*:ti,ab |
| #53 predictive next value:ti,ab |
| #54 accurac*:ti,ab |
| #55 miss next rate*:ti,ab |
| #56 detection next rate*:ti,ab |
| #57 diagnostic next yield*:ti,ab |
| #58 likelihood next ratio*.ti,ab |
| #59 diagnostic next odds next ratio*.ti,ab |
| #60 “odds ratio” and “diagnosis”:kw |
| #61 #52 or #53 or #54 or #55 or #56 or #57 or #58 or #59 or #60 |
| #62 #35 and #61 |
| #63 #50 or #62 |
| #64 screening:kw |
| #65 screen*:ti,ab |
| #66 #64 or #65 |
| #67 #63 and #66 from 2008 to 2012 |
| EMBASE Search Strategy |
| #1 Fecal |
| #2 faecal |
| #3 feces |
| #4 #1 OR #2 OR #3 |
| #5 ‘immunochemistry’/exp |
| #6 immunochem* |
| #7 #5 OR #6 |
| #8 #4 AND #7 |
| #9 fit:ab,ti |
| #10 guaiac:ab,ti |
| #11 ‘occult blood’ |
| #12 fobt* |
| #13 fob* |
| #14 ifobt |
| #15 ifob* |
| #16 #6 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12 OR #13 OR #14 OR #15 |
| #17 insure |
| #18 inform |
| #19 #17 OR #18 |
| #20 #16 AND #19 |
| #21 ‘instant view’ |
| #22 hemoccult |
| #23 immocare |
| #24 flexsure |
| #25 monohaem |
| #26 hemosure |
| #27 occultech |
| #28 quickvue |
| #29 clearview |
| #30 hemoquant |
| #31 ‘hema screen’ |
| #32 innovacon |
| #33 ‘oc micro’ |
| #34 ‘oc sensor’ |
| #35 ‘oc hemodia’ |
| #36 ‘oc light’ |
| #37 aimstep |
| #38 magstream |
| #39 immudia |
| #40 #16 OR #20 OR #21 OR #22 OR #23 OR #24 OR #25 OR #26 OR #27 OR #28 OR #29 OR #30 OR #31 OR #32 OR #33 OR #34 OR #35 OR #36 OR #37 OR #38 OR #39 |
| #41 ‘predictive value’/de |
| #42 ‘sensitivity and specificity’/de |
| #43 ‘laboratory diagnosis’/exp |
| #44 ‘reproducibility’/de |
| #45 ‘reference value’/de |
| #46 ‘diagnostic error’/exp |
| #47 ‘diagnostic test accuracy study’/de |
| #48 ‘diagnostic accuracy’/de |
| #49 ‘diagnostic value’/de |
| #50 ‘standard’/de |
| #51 ‘gold standard’/de |
| #52 ‘observer variation’/de |
| #53 ‘health care quality’/de |
| #54 ‘biomedical technology assessment’/de |
| #55 ‘clinical effectiveness’/de |
| #56 ‘clinical indicator’/de |
| #57 ‘medical error’/exp |
| #58 ‘root cause analysis’/de |
| #59 ‘good laboratory practice’/de |
| #60 ‘validation process’/de |
| #61 sensitiv*:ab,ti |
| #62 specificit*:ab,ti |
| #63 ‘predictive value’:ab,ti |
| #64 accurac*:ab,ti |
| #65 (false NEXT/1 positive*):ab,ti |
| #66 (false NEXT/1 negative*):ab,ti |
| #67 (miss NEXT/1 rate*):ab,ti |
| #68 (error NEXT/1 rate*):ab,ti |
| #69 (detection NEXT/1 rate*):ab,ti |
| #70 (diagnostic NEXT/1 yield*):ab,ti |
| #71 (likelihood NEXT/1 ratio*):ab,ti |
| #72 ‘odds ratio’:ab,ti AND diagnosis:ab,ti |
| #73 risk:ab,ti AND diagnosis:ab,ti |
| #74 ‘diagnostic odds ratio’:ab,ti OR‘diagnostic odds ratios’:ab,ti |
| #75 ‘diagnostic accuracy’ |
| #76 ‘reference standard’:ab,ti OR ‘reference standards’:ab,ti |
| #77 #41 OR #42 OR #43 OR #44 OR #45 OR #46 OR #47 OR #48 OR #49 OR #50 OR #51 OR #52 OR #53 OR #54 OR #55 OR #56 OR #57 OR #58 OR #59 OR #60 OR #61 OR #62 OR #63 OR #64 OR #65 OR #66 OR #67 OR #68 OR #69 OR #70 OR #71 OR #72 OR #73 OR #74 OR #75 OR #76 |
| #78 #40 AND #77 |
| #79 ‘colon tumor’/exp |
| #80 ‘rectum tumor’/exp |
| #81 ‘intestine polyp’/exp |
| #82 ‘colon polyp’/exp |
| #83 ‘colon cancer’:ab,ti |
| #84 ‘colonic cancer’:ab,ti |
| #85 ‘colorectal cancer’:ab,ti |
| #86 ‘colon neoplasm’:ab,ti |
| #87 ‘colonic neoplasm’:ab,ti |
| #88 ‘colorectal neoplasm’:ab,ti |
| #89 adenoma*:ab,ti |
| #90 ‘colon polyp’:ab,ti |
| #91 ‘colonic polyp’:ab,ti |
| #92 ‘colorectal polyp’:ab,ti |
| #93 #79 OR #80 OR #81 OR #82 OR #83 OR #84 OR #85 OR #86 OR #87 OR #88 OR #89 OR #90 OR #91 OR #92 |
| #94 #78 AND #93 |
| #95 #78 AND #93 AND [english]/lim |
| #96 #78 AND #93 AND [english]/lim NOT ([animals]/lim NOT ([humans]/lim OR ‘patient’/exp)) |
| #97 #78 AND #93 AND [english]/lim NOT ([animals]/lim NOT ([humans]/lim OR ‘patient’/exp)) NOT ‘conference abstract’/it |
| #98 #78 AND #93 AND [english]/lim NOT ([animals]/lim NOT ([humans]/lim OR ‘patient’/exp)) NOT ‘conference abstract’/it AND [2008-2012]/py |
