| No. | Search terms | Results |
| 1 | drug industry/ | 32073 |
| 2 | advertising as topic/ | 14219 |
| 3 | marketing/ | 4982 |
| 4 | gift giving/ | 1521 |
| 5 | ((pharmaceutical or drug or medical or company or industry or marketing or sales) adj1 representative*).ti,ab,kf. | 1273 |
| 6 | ((drug or pharmaceutical) adj1 promotion).ti,ab,kf. | 290 |
| 7 | ((industry or company or pharmaceutical) adj1 sponsor*).ti,ab,kf. | 1474 |
| 8 | ((sponsor* or fund* or subsidise* or subsidize* or subsidies or subsidy or compensat*) adj2 (meal* or meeting* or activit* or gift* or event* or lecture* or trial* or lunch* or education* or conference* or trip* or product* or course* or dinner* or food or item* or drug* or medication* or drink* or travel*)).ti,ab,kf. | 9975 |
| 9 | ((free or medical or drug or medication) adj sample).ti,ab,kf. | 408 |
| 10 | industry payment*.ti,ab,kf. | 114 |
| 11 | (detailman or detailmen or detail men or detail man).ti,ab,kf. | 33 |
| 12 | (commercial* adj1 (information or bias* or influence* or support*)).ti,ab,kf. | 422 |
| 13 | ((drug? or pharma*) adj1 (industry or firm? or manufacture* or company or companies)).ti,ab,kf. | 22267 |
| 14 | gift?.ti,ab,kf. | 5260 |
| 15 | or/1‐14 | 79426 |
| 16 | prescri*.ti,ab,kf. | 195033 |
| 17 | exp prescriptions/ | 32491 |
| 18 | inappropriate prescribing/ | 2492 |
| 19 | formularies, hospital/ | 0 |
| 20 | formular*.ti,ab,kf. | 4634 |
| 21 | attitude of health personnel/ | 114252 |
| 22 | "conflict of interest"/ | 9257 |
| 23 | (conflict* adj1 interest).ti,ab,kf. | 65 |
| 24 | ((physician* or professional*) adj1 (behaviour or behavior)).ti,ab,kf. | 2005 |
| 25 | pharmaceutical preparations/ | 51396 |
| 26 | (physician* adj2 attitude?).ti,ab,kf. | 2977 |
| 27 | or/16‐26 | 380064 |
| 28 | 15 and 27 | 11872 |
| 29 | randomized controlled trial.pt. | 476544 |
| 30 | controlled clinical trial.pt. | 92921 |
| 31 | multicenter study.pt. | 245584 |
| 32 | pragmatic clinical trial.pt. | 976 |
| 33 | (randomis* or randomiz* or randomly).ti,ab. | 814150 |
| 34 | groups.ab. | 1883132 |
| 35 | (trial or multicenter or multi center or multicentre or multi centre).ti. | 230276 |
| 36 | (intervention? or effect? or impact? or controlled or control group? or (before adj5 after) or (pre adj5 post) or ((pretest or pre test) and (posttest or post test)) or quasiexperiment* or quasi experiment* or pseudo experiment* or pseudoexperiment* or evaluat* or time series or time point? or repeated measur*).ti,ab. | 8839067 |
| 37 | non‐randomized controlled trials as topic/ | 456 |
| 38 | interrupted time series analysis/ | 535 |
| 39 | controlled before‐after studies/ | 374 |
| 40 | or/29‐39 | 9859559 |
| 41 | exp animals/ | 22109481 |
| 42 | humans/ | 17559673 |
| 43 | 41 not (41 and 42) | 4549808 |
| 44 | review.pt. | 2482278 |
| 45 | meta analysis.pt. | 97437 |
| 46 | news.pt. | 193672 |
| 47 | comment.pt. | 754091 |
| 48 | editorial.pt. | 482547 |
| 49 | cochrane database of systematic reviews.jn. | 14033 |
| 50 | comment on.cm. | 754033 |
| 51 | (systematic review or literature review).ti. | 126777 |
| 52 | or/43‐51 | 8153853 |
| 53 | 40 not 52 | 6921732 |
| 54 | 28 and 53 | 2622 |
| 55 | cross‐sectional studies/ | 286402 |
| 56 | ((cross‐sectional or prevalence or transvers*) adj2 (stud* or analys* or data or method* or design* or survey?)).ti,ab,kf. | 265336 |
| 57 | or/55‐56 | 389043 |
| 58 | 57 not 52 | 367880 |
| 59 | 28 and 58 | 293 |
| 60 | 54 or 59 | 2738 |