Table 1.
Draft of search strategy in PubMed
| Search strategy in PubMed database | |
| No | Search items |
| 1 | ‘neck pain’[MeSH Terms] |
| 2 | ‘neck’[All Fields] AND ‘pain’[All Fields] |
| 3 | ‘neck pain’[All Fields] |
| 4 | 1 or 2 or 3 |
| 5 | predictor[All Fields] |
| 6 | predictors[All Fields] |
| 7 | Prognostic OR Prognosis[All Fields] OR ‘Prognosis’[Mesh] |
| 8 | 5 or 6 or 7 |
| 9 | 4 and 8 |
| 10 | ‘therapy’[Subheading] |
| 11 | ‘therapy’[All Fields] |
| 12 | ‘treatment’[All Fields] |
| 13 | ‘therapeutics’[MeSH Terms] |
| 14 | ‘therapeutics’[All Fields] |
| 15 | ‘intervention’[All Fields] |
| 16 | 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 |
| 17 | 9 and 16 |