Table 7.
Example search strategy
| Searches | Results |
|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal diseases/or musculoskeletal diseases/or fasciitis, plantar/or foot deformities, acquired/or heel spur/or posterior tibial tendon dysfunction/or hand deformities, acquired/or exp temporomandibular joint disorders/or bursitis/or joint deformities, acquired/or joint instability/or joint loose bodies/or patellofemoral pain syndrome/or shoulder impingement syndrome/or synovitis/or compartment syndromes/or anterior compartment syndrome/or ischemic contracture/or contracture/or dupuytren contracture/or muscle cramp/or myofascial pain syndromes/or exp tendinopathy/or tennis elbow/ | 75,820 |
| musculoskeletal pain/or exp back pain/or chronic pain/or neck pain/or pain, intractable/ | 41,304 |
| exp arm injuries/or exp back injuries/or contusions/or exp dislocations/or exp fractures, bone/or fractures, cartilage/or exp hand injuries/or exp hip injuries/or exp leg injuries/or exp neck injuries/or occupational injuries/or soft tissue injuries/or exp spinal injuries/or exp “sprains and strains”/or exp tendon injuries/ | 237,957 |
| ((Pain* or tear or tears or injur* or sprain* or strain* or dislocation*) adj (musc* or joint or back or spine or spinal or neck or cervical or pelvic or hip or rotator cuff or knee or ankle or elbow or shoulder)).mp. | 8305 |
| (carpal tunnel or frozen shoulder or shoulder impingement or chronic pain or myofascial pain or patellofemoral pain or regional pain disorder* or whiplash).mp. | 39,549 |
| 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 | 356,444 |
| (osteoporosis or (diabet* and ulcer*) or fibromyalgia or ankylosing spondilytis or RA or arthritis or osteomyelitis).ti. | 113,335 |
| exp *Osteoporosis/ | 32,044 |
| exp *Diabetic Foot/ | 4942 |
| exp *Fibromyalgia/ | 5462 |
| exp *Arthritis/ | 165,770 |
| exp *Osteomyelitis/ | 13,996 |
| or/7–12 | 230,601 |
| 6 not 13 | 330,638 |
| Decision Support Systems, Clinical/ | 5200 |
| decision making, computer-assisted/or decision support techniques/ | 14,671 |
| decision making/and (model or models or classification or subgroup* or sub-group* or algorithm*).mp. | 12,813 |
| decision support.mp. | 22,109 |
| clinical prediction rule*.mp. | 710 |
| decision tree*.mp. | 11,491 |
| decision system*.tw. | 157 |
| treatment based classification.tw. | 35 |
| knowledge-base*.tw. | 9101 |
| treatment rule*.tw. | 72 |
| treatment selection.tw. | 1635 |
| targeted treatment*.tw. | 2353 |
| (treatment algorithm* or management algorithm*).tw. | 4400 |
| (orebro adj4 (musculoskeletal or questionnaire* or pain*)).tw. | 35 |
| STarT Back.tw. | 23 |
| Acute Low Back Pain Screening.tw. | 9 |
| ((support* or guide or aid* or rule* or tool*) adj4 decision).tw. | 20,310 |
| active knowledge system*.tw. | 3 |
| inference engine*.tw. | 148 |
| rule based system*.tw. | 244 |
| artificial intelligence/or expert systems/or “neural networks (computer)”/or support vector machines/or knowledge bases/or medical informatics computing/or exp pattern recognition, automated/ | 49,273 |
| (machine learning or artificial intelligence).tw. | 7145 |
| connectionist expert system*.tw. | 7 |
| careflow system*.tw. | 4 |
| or/15–37 | 119,832 |
| 14 and 39 | 1894 |
| limit 40 to animals | 38 |
| 40 not 41 | 1856 |
| limit 42 to “all child (0–18 years)” | 376 |
| limit 43 to “all adult (19 plus years)” | 263 |
| 42 not (43 not 44) | 1743 |
Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE(R) Daily and Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to Dec 10, 2013
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