Table 4.
MEDLINE search terms
| Search type | Actions | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (traumatic brain injury or tbi).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier] | 24457 |
| 2 | brain injur$.mp. or exp Brain Injuries/ | 70524 |
| 3 | brain edema.mp. or "wounds and injuries"/[mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier] | 78721 |
| 4 | cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic.mp. or exp Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic/or exp Craniocerebral Trauma/ | 127721 |
| 5 | cerebrovascular trauma.mp. or exp Cerebrovascular Trauma/ | 5733 |
| 6 | diffuse axonal injury.mp. or exp Diffuse Axonal Injury/or exp Head Injuries, Closed/ | 8599 |
| 7 | diffuse axonal injuries.mp. | 42 |
| 8 | glasgow coma scale.mp. or exp Glasgow Coma Scale/ | 10497 |
| 9 | glasgow outcome scale.mp. or exp Glasgow Outcome Scale/or exp Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/ | 19653 |
| 10 | exp Post-Concussion Syndrome/or exp Brain Concussion/or concussion.mp. | 6834 |
| 11 | ((head or crani* or cerebr* or brain* or forebrain* or skull* or hemispher* or intra?cran*) adj3 (injur* or trauma* or damag* or lesion* or wound* or oedema* or edema* or contusion* or concus* or fracture)).ti,ab. | 146221 |
| 12 | rancho los amigos.mp. | 142 |
| 13 | ((unconscious* or coma* or concus* or 'persistent vegetative state') adj3 (injur* or trauma* or damag* or wound* or fracture* or contusion* or haematoma* or hematoma* or haemorrhag* or hemorrhag*)).ti,ab. | 3368 |
| 14 | (closed head injury or closed-head injury or CHI or closed-head injuries or closed head injuries).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier] | 129420 |
| 15 | or/1-14 | 438225 |
| 16 | aphasia.mp. or exp Aphasia, Wernicke/or exp Aphasia/or exp Aphasia, Primary Progressive/ | 14090 |
| 17 | exp Language Disorders/or exp Speech Disorders/or prosodic impairment.mp. or exp Speech Perception/ | 57940 |
| 18 | speech prosody.mp. or exp Speech Acoustics/ | 5883 |
| 19 | (dysprosody or prosodic impairments).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier] | 68 |
| 20 | ((prosod* or speech* or language* or communicat* or linguist* or vocal*) adj3 (damag* or disorder* or difficult* impair* or challeng*)).ti,ab. | 8582 |
| 21 | ((emotion* or pitch* or syllab* or phone* or affect* or voice* or vocal*) adj3 (recognition* or discrimination* or distinguish* or differentiat* or identif* or process*)).ti,ab. | 44435 |
| 22 | or/16-21 | 110875 |
| 23 | 15 and 22 | 5305 |
| 24 | limit 23 to case reports | 1236 |
| 25 | 23 not 24 | 4069 |
| 26 | limit 25 to (letter or meta analysis) | 36 |
| 27 | 25 not 26 | 4033 |
| 28 | limit 27 to systematic reviews | 55 |
| 29 | 27 not 28 | 3978 |
| 30 | limit 29 to english language | 3458 |
| 31 | limit 30 to animals | 149 |
| 32 | 30 not 31 | 3309 |
| 33 | remove duplicates from 32 | 3261 |
| 34 | limit 33 to yr = "1980 –Current” | 2963 |