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. 2015 Dec 28;40:779–783. doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3333-9

Table 1.

Search terms in English and French with total number and frequency of citations

Search terms (English) Search terms (French) Total mentions Policies with no mentions of term (%) Number of policies with 5 or less mentions (%)
HIV HIV, VIH 2255 0 2
Malaria Palu* 1517 2 5
Cancer, malignancy, neoplasm, chemo* Cancer, néoplasme, chimio* 396 16 56
Surg* Chir* 376 19 63
Transfusion, blood product Transfusion, sang* 218 12 58
Trauma, injury, accident, RTA Trauma*, blessure, accident, AVP 239 23 65
Cesarian, cesarian, C-section, operative deliveries, EMOC, EMONC Caesa*, Cesa*, SONUC 130 37 81
Cataract, blindness Cataracte, cécité 61 51 91
Orth* Orth* 45 70 95
Operating theatre, room, bloc Bloc opératoire, salle d’opération, opé* 27 37 51
Append*,hernia, laparotomy Appen*,hernie, laparotomie 0 100 100
Club foot Pied bot 0 100 100

For simplicity in the remaining text of this paper only the English term will be used to describe the statistics revealed by both English and French search terms