Table 1.
Search strategy for critical appraisal tools and decision aids
| Critical appraisal tools |
| Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) and EMBASE <2001 to January Week 4 2010> Search Strategy |
| 1. Patient Participation/(13658) |
| 2. Consumer Participation/(11836) |
| 3. (Patient or patients or consumer or consumers or client or clients or user or users or citizen or citizens or lay men or lay people or lay population*).ti,ab. (3454913) |
| 4. 1 or 2 or 3 (3468734) |
| 5. Checklist/(44) |
| 6. ((Checklist* or tool* or guid*) adj6 (medical literature or health* literature or health care literature or medical news or health news or health care news or media or science* or research or internet or medical information or health* information or health care information or world wide web)).ti,ab. (16117) |
| 7. 5 or 6 (16160) |
| 8. ((Critical* adj2 apprais*) or assess* or evaluat*).ti,ab. (2342349) |
| 9. 4 and 7 and 8 (2196) |
| 10. Limit 9 to year = ‘2001 –Current’ (1447) |
| 11. Limit 10 to humans (1366) |
| 12. From 11 keep 1–10 (10) |
| 13. From 11 keep 1–10 (10) |
| 14. From 11 keep 1–1366 (1366) |
| 15. From 14 keep 1–1366 (1366) |
| Checklist consultation |
| Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) and EMBASE <2001 to January Week 4 2010> Search Strategy |
| 1. Patient Participation/(13658) |
| 2. Consumer Participation/(11836) |
| 3. (Patient or patients or consumer or consumers or client or clients or user or users or citizen or citizens or lay men or lay people or lay population*).ti,ab. (3454913) |
| 4. 1 or 2 or 3 (3468734) |
| 5. Checklist/(44) |
| 6. ((Checklist* or tool* or guid*) adj6 (medical literature or health* literature or health care literature or medical news or health news or health care news or media or science* or research or internet or medical information or health* information or health care information or world wide web)).ti,ab. (16117) |
| 7. 5 or 6 (16160) |
| 8. ((Critical* adj2 apprais*) or assess* or evaluat*).ti,ab. (2342349) |
| 9. 4 and 7 and 8 (2196) |
| 10. Limit 9 to year = ‘2001 –Current’ (1447) |
| 11. Limit 10 to humans (1366) |
| 12. From 11 keep 1–10 (10) |
| 13. From 11 keep 1–10 (10) |
| 14. From 11 keep 1–1366 (1366) |
| 15. From 14 keep 1–1366 (1366) |
| Checklist consultation |
| Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) and EMBASE <2001 to January Week 4 2010> Search Strategy: |
| 1. (Decision* or participat* or consult*).ti,ab. (402046) |
| 2. Decision Making/(51332) |
| 3. Nurse-Patient Relations/(25939) |
| 4. Professional-Patient Relations/(17173) |
| 5. Physician-Patient Relations/(49944) |
| 6. Patient Participation/(13658) |
| 7. Consumer Participation/(11836) |
| 8. (Patient or patients or consumer or consumers or client or clients or user or users).ti,ab. (3449075) |
| 9. 1 or 2 (428028) |
| 10. 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 (3511881) |
| 11. Checklist/(44) |
| 12. Checklist.ti,ab. (10757) |
| 13. 11 or 12 (10781) |
| 14. 9 and 10 and 13 (648) |
| 15. Limit 14 to (humans and year = ‘2001 –Current’) (419) |
| 16. From 15 keep 1–419 (419) |
| Cochrane methods register |
| 1. ‘Consumer involvement’ or ‘Patient involvement’.kw |
| 2. (Patient or patients or consumer or consumers or client or clients or user or users or citizen or citizens or lay*).ti,ab. |
| 3. 1 or 2 |
| 4. ((Critical* adj2 apprais*) or assess* or evaluat*).ti,ab. |
| 5. ‘Scales and checklists’.kw |
| 6. (Checklist* or tool* or guid*)4 or 5 or 6 |
| 7. 3 and 7 |
*
Search strategy indication of truncation.