Table 1.

The search strategy used in Medline (via Ovid). Table 1 search strategy for the Cochrane Library.

#1 MeSH descriptor: [eczema] explode all trees

#2 (“Eczemas”):ti,ab,kw or (“dermatitides, eczematous”):ti,ab,kw or (“eczematous dermatitides”):ti,ab,kw

#3 (“Dermatitis, eczematous”):ti,ab,kw or (“eczematous dermatitis”):ti,ab,kw”

#4 #1 or #2 or #3

#5 (“Chronic”):ti,ab,kw

#6 MeSH descriptor: [hand] explode all trees

#7 (“Hands”):ti,ab,kw

#8 #6 or #7

#9 #4 and #5 and #8

#10 MeSH descriptor:[clobetasol] explode all trees

#11 (“Cormax”):ti,ab,kw or (“temovate”):ti,ab,kw or (“clofenazon”):ti,ab,kw or (“Embeline E”):ti,ab,kw

#12 (“Clobetasol 17-Propionate”):ti,ab,kw or (“clobetasol 17 propionate”):ti,ab,kw or (“clobetasol propionate”):ti,ab,kw or (“OLUX”):ti,ab,kw

#13 (“Embeline”):ti,ab,kw or (“ Clobex”):ti,ab,kw or (“Dermovate”):ti,ab,kw

#14 #10 or #11 or #12 #13

#15 Mesh descriptor: [randomized controlled trial] explode all trees

#16 (“Randomized controlled trial”):ti,ab,kw or (“randomized”):ti,ab,kw or (“controlled”):ti,ab,kw

#17 #15 or #16

#18 #9 and #14 and #17