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. 2016 Feb 3;11(2):e0147943. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147943

Table 5. Example of the number of appraisals retrieved by the DianaHealth.com search engine in July 2015 (n = 2940), on three different health topics.

The results are classified according to the initiative.

Initiative Cancer* Pregnancy# Heart disease¥
1. NICE Do not Do Recommendations (UK) 92 60 20
2. Cochrane Quality and Productivity Topics (UK) 3 4 0
3. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force A recommendations (USA) 2 9 0
4. The Canadian Task Force for Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) Guidelines (Canada) 7 0 0
5. JAMA Less is more collection (USA) 21 1 7
6. MAPAC Initiative (Spain) 2 0 0
7. Elshaug, et al. article (Australia) 19 2 3
8. Choosing Wisely® (USA) 53 3 23
9. Doing more does not mean doing better (Fare di più non significa fare meglio) (Italy) 13 4 3
10. Essencial (Spain) 4 1 1
11. Compromiso por la calidad de las Sociedades Científicas (Spain) 9 1 4
12. Prasad, et al. article (USA) 6 2 15
13. TheBMJ Too much medicine (UK) 23 1 1
14. Choosing Wisely Canada (Canada) 15 2 2
15. Choosing Wisely Netherlands Campaign (Netherlands) 1 0 0
16. Prescrire Pour mieux soigner, des medicaments à écarter: bilan(France) 4 0 0
17. Recomendaciones No Hacer semFYC (Spain) 1 0 2
18. Morgan et al. article (USA) 1 0 0
19. Smarter medicine (Switzerland) 1 0 0
20. Recomendaciones No Hacer SERAM (Spain) 2 0 0
21. Choosing wisely Australia (Australia) 2 1 1
22. Choosing wisely Japan (Japan) 1 0 0
Total 282 91 82

* Using the search term cancer.

#Using pregnan as a root word to find pregnancy and pregnant.

¥Combining results of two searches (coronary, infarct).