Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Pediatr. 2013 May;167(5):476–482. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.13

Table 1.

PubMed Search Strategy

Search No. Querya Items
30 Search 20, NOT 21; limits: humans, English, preschool children aged 2–5 y, children aged 6–12 y, adolescents aged 13–18 y, publication date from 1970 to 2012 951
29 Search 20, NOT 21; limits: humans, preschool children aged 2–5 y, children aged 6–12 y, adolescents aged 13–18 y, publication date from 1970 to 2012 1079
28 Search 20, NOT 21; limits: humans, preschool children aged 2–5 y, children aged 6–12 y, adolescents aged 13–18 y 1088
24 Search 20, NOT 21; limits: humans, infants aged 1–23 mo, preschool children aged 2–5 y, children aged 6–12 y, adolescents aged 13–18 y 1096
22 Search 20, NOT 21 4284
21 Searches 14 and 19; limits: animals, editorial, letter, review, case reports, comment, in vitro 49
20 Searches 14 and 19 4333
19 Search (“overweight/complications” [mesh] or “overweight/mortality” [mesh]) 27 587
14 Search (((“morbidity” [mesh]) or “mortality” [mesh]) or “infection” [mesh]) or “respiratory distress syndrome, adult” [mesh] 1 076 667
a

NOT indicates the Boolean operator used in the search strategy of the PubMed database.