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. 2011 Jul 6;2011(7):CD006383. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006383.pub2
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Unless otherwise stated, search terms are free text terms; ab = abstract; adj = adjacent; exp = exploded MeSH; MeSH = medical subject heading (Medline medical index term); ot = original title; pt = publication type; sh = MeSH; tw = text word; ti = title; the dollar sign ($) stands for any character(s); the question mark (?) = to substitute for one or no characters.
EMBASE:
1     exp long acting insulin/ 2     ((long‐acting or longacting) adj6 insulin*).tw,ot. 3     exp insulin detemir/ 4     (detemir or levemir).tw,ot. 5     exp insulin glargine/ 6     (glargin* or lantus).tw,ot. 7     or/1‐6
8     exp Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ 9     exp Diabetes Complications/ 10     (MODY or NIDDM or TDM2).ab,ti,ot. 11     (non insulin$ depend$ or noninsulin depend$ or noninsulin?depend$ or noninsulin?depend$).ab,ti,ot. 12     ((typ$ 2 or typ$ II) adj3 diabet$).ab,ti,ot. 13     ((keto?resist$ or non?keto$) adj6 diabet$).ab,ti,ot. 14     (((late or adult$ or matur$ or slow or stabl$) adj3 onset) and diabet$).ab,ti. 15     or/8‐14 16     exp Diabetes Insipidus/ 17     diabet$ insipidus.ab,ti,ot. 18     16 or 17 19     15 not 18
 
20     7 and 19
 
21     exp Randomized Controlled Trial/ 22     exp Controlled Clinical Trial/ 23     exp Clinical Trial/ 24     exp Comparative Study/ 25     exp Drug comparison/ 26     exp Randomization/ 27     exp Crossover procedure/ 28     exp Double blind procedure/ 29     exp Single blind procedure/ 30     exp Placebo/ 31     exp Prospective Study/ 32     ((clinical or control$ or comparativ$ or placebo$ or prospectiv$ or randomi?ed) adj3 (trial$ or stud$)).ab,ti. 33     (random$ adj6 (allocat$ or assign$ or basis or order$)).ab,ti. 34     ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj6 (blind$ or mask$)).ab,ti. 35     (cross over or crossover).ab,ti. 36     or/21‐35
 
37     exp meta analysis/ 38     (metaanaly$ or meta analy$ or meta?analy$).ab,ti,ot. 39     ((review$ or search$) adj10 (literature$ or medical database$ or medline or pubmed or embase or cochrane or cinhal or psychinfo or psychlit or healthstar or biosis or current content$ or systematic$)).ab,ti,ot. 40     exp Literature/ 41     exp Biomedical Technology Assessment/ 42     hta.tw,ot. 43     (health technology adj6 assessment$).tw,ot. 44     or/37‐43
45     (comment or editorial or historical‐article).pt. 46     44 not 45 47     36 or 46 48     20 and 47 49     48 not 45
 
Medline:
1     exp Insulin, Long‐Acting/ 2     ((longacting or long‐acting) adj6 insulin*).tw,ot. 3     (detemir or levemir).tw,ot. 4     (glargin* or lantus).tw,ot. 5     or/1‐4
 
6     exp Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ 7     exp Diabetes Complications/ 8     (MODY or NIDDM or T2DM).tw,ot. 9     (non insulin$ depend$ or noninsulin$ depend$ or noninsulin?depend$ or noninsulin?depend).tw,ot. 10     ((typ$ 2 or typ$ II) adj3 diabet$).tw,ot. 11     ((keto?resist$ or non?keto$) adj6 diabet$).tw,ot. 12     (((late or adult$ or matur$ or slow or stabl$) adj3 onset) and diabet$).ab,ti. 13     or/6‐12 14     exp Diabetes Insipidus/ 15     diabet$ insipidus.tw,ot. 16     14 or 15 17     13 not 16
 
18     randomized controlled trial.pt. 19     controlled clinical trial.pt. 20     randomi?ed.ab,ti. 21     placebo$.ab,ti. 22     drug therapy.fs. 23     randomly.ab,ti. 24     trial$.ab,ti. 25     group$.ab,ti. 26     or/18‐25
 
27     Meta‐analysis.pt. 28     exp Review/ 29     exp Meta‐analysis/ 30     systematic review$.tw. 31     search$.tw. 32     medline.tw. 33     cochrane database of systematic reviews.jn. 34     or/27‐33
 
35     letter.pt. 36     comment.pt.37     editorial.pt. 38     historical‐article.pt. 39     or/35‐38 40     34 not 39
 
41     exp Technology Assessment, Biomedical/ 42     HTA.tw. 43     (health technology adj6 assessment$).tw. 44     (biomedical adj6 technology assessment$).tw. 45     or/41‐44
 
46     26 or 34 or 45 47     46 not 39 48     5 and 17 and 47
 
The Cochrane Library:
#1        MeSH descriptor Insulin, Long‐Acting explode all trees #2        ((long‐acting or longacting) near6 insulin*) #3        (detemir or levemir) #4        (glargin* or lantus) #5        (#1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4) #6        MeSH descriptor Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 explode all trees #7        MeSH descriptor Diabetes Complications explode all trees #8        (MODY or NIDDM or T2DM) #9        (non insulin* depend* or noninsulin* depend* or non insulin depend* or noninsulindepend*) #10      ((ketoresist* or keto resist* or nonketo* or non keto*) near6 diabet*) #11      ((typ* 2 or typ* II) adj3 diabet*) #12      (((late or adult* or matur* or slow or stabl*) near3 onset) and diabet*) #13      (#6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12) #14      #5 and #13