Table 1.
Searches and hits
| PubMed explorative search | ||
| Date: | 15 April 2015 | |
| Publication dates: | No restriction (resulted in results from 1988 to 15.04.2015) | |
| Language: | No restriction | |
| Search string: | (“systematic review” OR “systematic literature review”[Title/Abstract] OR “qualitative review”[Title/Abstract] OR “literature review”[Title/Abstract] OR “argument-based”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematic survey“[Title/Abstract] OR “literature survey”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematische Übersichtsarbeit“) AND (Ethics[Title/Abstract] OR Bioethics[Title/Abstract] OR “ethical issues”[Title/Abstract] OR normative[Title] OR “ethical guidelines”[Title]) NOT protocol | |
| Hits: | 399 | |
| PubMed refined search | ||
| Date: | 27 April 2015 | |
| Publication dates: | Start: no date restriction; end: 15.04.2015 | |
| Language: | No restriction | |
| Search string: | (“systematic review”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematic literature review”[Title/Abstract] OR “qualitative review”[Title/Abstract] OR “literature review”[Title/Abstract] OR “argument-based”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematic survey”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematic search”[Title/Abstract] OR “literature survey”[Title/Abstract] OR “systematische Übersichtsarbeit”) AND ((((Allocat*[Title] OR euthanasia[Title] OR “assisted dying”[Title] OR “end-of-life”[Title] OR palliative[Title] OR ration*[Title] OR attitude*[Title] OR motivation*[Title] OR decision*[Title]) AND (Ethics[Title/Abstract] OR Bioethics[Title/Abstract] OR “ethical issues”[Title/Abstract] OR ethical*[Title/Abstract] OR normative[Title/Abstract] OR “ethical guidelines”[Title/Abstract])) OR (Ethics[Title/Abstract] OR Bioethics[Title/Abstract] OR “ethical issues”[Title/Abstract] OR ethical*[Title] OR normative[Title] OR “ethical guidelines”[Title]))) NOT protocol* NOT “position statement” NOT “ethical approval” NOT ethics commit* | |
| Explanation: | The exclusion (NOT) conditions for “protocol*”, “position statement”, “ethical approval” and “ethics commit*” were integrated to increase specificity of hits without decreasing sensitivity too much. | |
| Hits: | 441 (incl. duplicate hits regarding earlier search) | |
| PhilPapers | ||
| Date: | 29 April 2015 | |
| Publication dates: | Start: no date restriction; end: 15.04.2015 (i.e., all hits after that date ignored) | |
| Language: | No restriction | |
| Search mode: | Basic fuzzy filter | |
| Key words: | Mandatory key words: Relevance key words: |
“systematic” AND “review” “ethics” |
| Hits: | 447 (incl. duplicate hits regarding earlier searches) | |
| Google Scholar | ||
| Date: | 30 April 2015 | |
| Publication dates: | Start: no date restriction; end: 15.04.2015 (i.e., all hits after that date ignored) | |
| Language: | No restriction | |
| Search mode: | Allintitle | |
| Display mode: | Sorted by relevance; citations deactivated | |
| Search string: | bioethics OR ethics AND (“systematic review” OR “literature review”) | |
| Hits: | 87 (incl. duplicate hits regarding earlier searches) | |