Table 1. Absolute frequency of articles found during the stages of article identification and screening.
| Source | Search terms & cutaneous leishmaniasis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Topical treatment | Local treatment | Local heat | Heat therapy | Thermotherapy | |
| PubMed | ||||||
| No limits | 3404 | 228 | 184 | 11 | 46 | 26 |
| Title/Abstract | 1197 | 62 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 10 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 175 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| OVID | ||||||
| No limits | 2390 | 7767 | 11601 | 4990 | 7646 | 12513 |
| Title/Abstract/Keyword | 19 | 9820 | 10579 | 5708 | 5469 | 7196 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 5 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| ScienceDirect | ||||||
| No limits | 6647 | 1309 | 2863 | 1065 | 1216 | 57 |
| Title/Abstract/Keyword | 343 | 34 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 47 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Embase | ||||||
| No limits | 2249 | 423 | 167 | 15 | 61 | 70 |
| Art & Clinical trial | 154 | 53 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 48 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Wiley | ||||||
| No limits | 3749 | 1220 | 1941 | 781 | 830 | 32 |
| Title | 73 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 47 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| SciELO | ||||||
| No limits | 125 | 32 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Title | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| LILACS | ||||||
| No limits | 381 | 230 | 181 | 20 | 54 | 32 |
| Title | 49 | 73 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 5 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Web of Science | ||||||
| No limits | 1590 | 200 | 96 | 14 | 30 | 21 |
| Title | 339 | 43 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| Experimental (ECC) | 95 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 |