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. 2016 May 4;17:198. doi: 10.1186/s12891-016-1048-1

Table 5.

Search strategy in PubMed February 9, 2015 (read from bottom-up)

Set Search terms Result
#5 #5 NOT (“addresses”[Publication Type] OR “biography”[Publication Type] OR “comment”[Publication Type] OR “directory”[Publication Type] OR “editorial”[Publication Type] OR “festschrift”[Publication Type] OR “interview”[Publication Type] OR “lectures”[Publication Type] OR “legal cases”[Publication Type] OR “legislation”[Publication Type] OR “letter”[Publication Type] OR “news”[Publication Type] OR “newspaper article”[Publication Type] OR “patient education handout”[Publication Type] OR “popular works”[Publication Type] OR “congresses”[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference”[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference, nih”[Publication Type] OR “practice guideline”[Publication Type]) NOT (animals[mh] NOT humans[mh]) 88
#5 #3 AND #4 97
#4 “Sexuality”[Mesh] OR “Sexual Behavior”[Mesh] OR “Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological”[Mesh] OR “Sexual Partners”[Mesh] OR sexual*[tiab] OR “sex behavior”[tiab] OR “sex behaviour”[tiab] OR SQOL[tiab] 221959
#3 #1 OR #2 60706
#2 “Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip”[Mesh] OR “Hip Prosthesis”[Mesh] OR ((“Arthroplasty”[Mesh:NoExp] OR “Arthroplasty, Replacement”[Mesh:NoExp] OR “Arthrodesis”[Mesh] OR Arthroplasties[tiab] OR Arthroplasty[tiab] OR Arthrodes*[tiab] OR Prosthes*[tiab] OR Implant*[tiab] OR replacement*[tiab] OR revision[tiab] OR Arthrodes*[tiab]) AND (“Hip”[Mesh] OR “Hip Joint”[Mesh] OR Hip[tiab] OR hips[tiab])) 43562
#1 “Osteoarthritis, Hip”[Mesh] OR “Hip Contracture”[Mesh] OR Coxarthrosis[tiab] OR Coxarthroses[tiab] OR “Femur Head Necrosis”[Mesh] OR Femur Head Necros*[tiab] OR Femur Head osteonecros*[tiab] OR ((“Joint Diseases”[Mesh:NoExp] OR “Arthritis”[Mesh:NoExp] OR “Osteoarthritis”[Mesh:NoExp] OR Osteoarthr*[tiab] OR Arthriti*[tiab] OR arthro*[tiab]) AND (“Hip”[Mesh] OR “Hip Joint”TMeshl OR hipftiab] OR hipsftiab])) 41398