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. 2020 Jan 12;10(1):e028455. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028455

Table 2.

Selected diseases for textbook and curricula searches

Degenerative cervical myelopathy Multiple sclerosis Cauda equina syndrome Diabetes mellitus
Reasoning Disease of interest A disease with a similar incidence and morbidity to degenerative cervical myelopathy. Selected as a clinico-epidemiological control22 Widely taught spinal emergency, selected as a spinal control Non-spinal control
Search terms for curricula searches

  • Cervical myelopathy.

  • Cervical myeloradiculopathy.

  • Cervical stenosis.

  • Cervical compression.

  • Cervical herniation.

  • Cervical degeneration.

  • Ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament.

  • Spinal osteophytosis.

  • Spinal cord compression.

  • Spondylosis.

 

  • Multiple sclerosis.

  • Demyelinating disease.

  • Demyelination.

  • Cauda equina.

  • Saddle anaesthesia.

  • Diabetes mellitus.

  • Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

  • Type 1 diabetes mellitus.

  • Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

  • Maturity onset diabetes of young.

  • Gestational diabetes mellitus.

  • Late onset diabetes.

  • Maturity onset diabetes.

  • Insulin resistance.

  • Diabetic ketoacidosis.

  • Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state.

  • Hyperosmolar non-ketotic coma.

The reasoning for each of the comparators and search terms employed for the curricula searches are explained in this table.