Table 1.
Search strategy for MEDLINEa
| Search | Query |
|---|---|
| 1 | “Cancer*”.mp |
| 2 | “Tumour*”.mp |
| 3 | “Tumor*”.mp |
| 4 | “Malignan*”.mp |
| 5 | “Neoplasm*”.mp |
| 6 | exp Neoplasm/ |
| 7 | Or/1–6 |
| 8 | exp Health Literacy/ |
| 9 | “Health Literacy”.mp |
| 10 | “Health Literate”.mp |
| 11 | “Health Literacies”.mp |
| 12 | “Literacy”.mp |
| 13 | “Literate”.mp |
| 14 | “Literacies”.mp |
| 15 | “Cancer literacy”.mp |
| 16 | “Cancer literate”.mp |
| 17 | “Numeracy”.mp |
| 18 | “Numerate”.mp |
| 19 | Or/8–18 |
| 20 | 7 AND 19 |
| 21 | “Systematic review”.ti |
| 22 | 20 NOT 21 |
| 23 | Limit 22 to yr="1990 ‐Current" |
Bold is used to identify where individual searches have been grouped together.
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