Table 2.

Databases accessed displaying search terms employed, quantity of results, access limitation, reasons for exclusion, and accepted papers dealing with the effect of patient education and literacy on medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Database   Search terms	Results	Reasons for exclusion	Accepted citations [ref. number]
PsycINFO via OvidSP host  Rheuma * arthritis [or] Rheuma * disease [or] RA  [and]  Complian *  [or] non?compli *  [or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime *  [and]   Medic *  [or] pharmac*   [or] drug [or] treatment [or] therapy [or] biologic [or] ?DMARD? [or] disease?modifying*  [and]   Patient education*   [or] intervention [or] strategy [or] knowledge [or] health liter*  [or] understanding	20	n = 2, juvenile/paediatric population n = 4, review/qualitative/ book n = 13, not relevant	n = 1 [58]
EBM Reviews, All-Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, and CCTR OvidSP host  Rheuma * arthritis [or] RA [or] rheama * disease  [and]   Complian *  [or] non?compli *  [or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime  [and]   Medic *  [or] pharmac* [or] drug [or] treatment [or] therapy [or] biologic [or] ?DMARD?	473	n = 3, already included n = 469, not relevant	n = 1 [75]
MedLine via OvidSP host  Rheuma * arthritis [or] RA [or] rheama * disease  [and]   Complian * [or] non?compli * [or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime  [and]   Medic *   [or] pharmac* [or] drug [or] treatment [or] therapy [or] biologic [or] ?DMARD?   [and]   Medication	221	n = 3, already included n = 1, juvenile population n = 4, review/qualitative/ book n = 210, not relevant n = 1, female-only sample	n = 2 [28, 59]

The asterisk star is a wildcard search character. In this instance, it represents a string of characters, for example, the ∗ matches zero or more characters, so rheum ∗ will generate rheumatoid, rheumatology, rheumatic and so forth.