Table 1.

Searching strategy in PubMed.

#1 “Femoral Artery”[MeSH]

#2 “Femoral artery”[title/abstract] or “femoral arteries”[title/abstract]

#3 #1 or #2

#4 “Punctures”[MeSH]

#5 “Punctur∗”[title/abstract]

#6 #4 or #5

#7 “Compression bandages”[MeSH] or “stockings, compression”[MeSH]

#8 “Compression”[title/abstract]

#9 #7 or #8

#10 “Clinical trials, phase II as topic”[MeSH] or “clinical trials, phase III as topic”[Mesh] or “clinical trials, phase IV as topic”[MeSH] or “controlled clinical trials as topic”[MeSH] or “randomized controlled trials as topic”[MeSH] or “intention to treat analysis”[MeSH] or “pragmatic clinical trials as topic”[mesh] or “clinical trials, phase II”[publication type] or “clinical trials, phase III”[publication type] or “clinical trials, phase iv”[publication type] or “controlled clinical trials”[publication type] or “pragmatic clinical trials as topic”[publication type] or “single-blind method”[MeSH] or “double-blind method”[MeSH]

#11 Random∗[title/abstract] or blind∗[title/abstract] or singleblind∗[title/abstract] or doubleblind∗[title/abstract] or trebleblind∗[title/abstract] or tripleblind [title/abstract]

#12 #10 or #11

#13 #3 and #6 and #9 and #12