Table 1.
Operationalization of the search strategy.
| Step | PubMed |
EMBASE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achilles tendon injury | Rotator cuff injury | Achilles tendon injury | Rotator cuff injury | |
| #1 | Achilles [Title/Abstract] OR tendon [Title/Abstract] | Rotator cuff [Title/Abstract] OR supraspinatus [Title/Abstract] OR infraspinatus [Title/Abstract] OR subscapularis [Title/Abstract] OR teres minor [Title/Abstract] OR tendon [Title/Abstract] | Achilles:ti,ab,kw OR tendon:ti,ab,kw | ‘rotator cuff”:ti,ab,kw OR supraspinatus:ti,ab,kw OR infraspinatus:ti,ab,kw OR subscapularis:ti,ab,kw OR ‘teres minor”:ti,ab,kw OR tendon:ti,ab,kw |
| #2 | rupture [Title/Abstract] OR tear [Title/Abstract] OR partial [Title/Abstract] OR complete [Title/Abstract] | rupture [Title/Abstract] OR tear [Title/Abstract] OR partial [Title/Abstract] OR complete [Title/Abstract] | Rupture:ti,ab,kw OR tear:ti,ab,kw OR partial:ti,ab,kw OR complete:ti,ab,kw | Rupture:ti,ab,kw OR tear:ti,ab,kw OR partial:ti,ab,kw OR complete:ti,ab,kw |
| #3 | Macrophage*[Title/Abstract] OR inflam*[Title/Abstract] OR M1[Title/Abstract] OR M2[Title/Abstract] | Macrophage*[Title/Abstract] OR inflam*[Title/Abstract] OR M1[Title/Abstract] OR M2[Title/Abstract] | macrophage* OR m1 OR m2 OR inflam* | macrophage* OR m1 OR m2 OR inflam* |
| #4 | #1 and #2 and #3 | #1 and #2 and #3 | #1 and #2 and #3 | #1 and #2 and #3 |