Table 1.

Search strategy at PubMed

Search terms	Search details	Search results (number of items found)
(scorpion) AND (sting OR envenomation) AND (incidence OR prevalence OR clinical presentation OR epidemiology OR forensic OR medicolegal OR autopsy) AND (Saudi Arabia OR Kingdom of Saudi Arabia OR KSA)	(“scorpion stings”[MeSH Terms] OR (“scorpion”[All Fields] AND “stings”[All Fields]) OR “scorpion stings”[All Fields] OR “scorpionism”[All Fields] OR “scorpion s”[All Fields] OR “scorpionic”[All Fields] OR “scorpions”[MeSH Terms] OR “scorpions”[All Fields] OR “scorpion”[All Fields] OR “scorpiones”[All Fields]) AND (“bites and stings”[MeSH Terms] OR (“bites”[All Fields] AND “stings”[All Fields]) OR “bites and stings”[All Fields] OR “sting”[All Fields] OR “stings”[All Fields] OR “sting s”[All Fields] OR “stinging”[All Fields] OR (“envenomated”[All Fields] OR “envenomating”[All Fields] OR “envenomation”[All Fields] OR “envenomations”[All Fields] OR “envenomed”[All Fields] OR “envenoming”[All Fields] OR “envenomings”[All Fields] OR “envenomization”[All Fields])) AND (“epidemiology”[MeSH Subheading] OR “epidemiology”[All Fields] OR “incidence”[All Fields] OR “incidence”[MeSH Terms] OR “incidences”[All Fields] OR “incident”[All Fields] OR “incidents”[All Fields] OR (“epidemiology”[MeSH Subheading] OR “epidemiology”[All Fields] OR “prevalence”[All Fields] OR “prevalence”[MeSH Terms] OR “prevalance”[All Fields] OR “prevalences”[All Fields] OR “prevalence s”[All Fields] OR “prevalent”[All Fields] OR “prevalently”[All Fields] OR “prevalents”[All Fields]) OR ((“ambulatory care facilities”[MeSH Terms] OR (“ambulatory”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields] AND “facilities”[All Fields]) OR “ambulatory care facilities”[All Fields] OR “clinic”[All Fields] OR “clinic s”[All Fields] OR “clinical”[All Fields] OR “clinically”[All Fields] OR “clinicals”[All Fields] OR “clinics”[All Fields]) AND (“present”[All Fields] OR “presentation”[All Fields] OR “presentations”[All Fields] OR “presented”[All Fields] OR “presenter”[All Fields] OR “presenter s”[All Fields] OR “presenters”[All Fields] OR “presenting”[All Fields] OR “presents”[All Fields])) OR (“epidemiologies”[All Fields] OR “epidemiology”[MeSH Subheading] OR “epidemiology”[All Fields] OR “epidemiology”[MeSH Terms] OR “epidemiology s”[All Fields]) OR (“forensic medicine”[MeSH Terms] OR (“forensic”[All Fields] AND “medicine”[All Fields]) OR “forensic medicine”[All Fields] OR “forensics”[All Fields] OR “forensic”[All Fields] OR “forensically”[All Fields]) OR (“medicolegal”[All Fields] OR “medicolegally”[All Fields]) OR (“autopsied”[All Fields] OR “autopsy”[MeSH Terms] OR “autopsy”[All Fields] OR “autopsies”[All Fields])) AND (“saudi arabia”[MeSH Terms] OR (“saudi”[All Fields] AND “arabia”[All Fields]) OR “saudi arabia”[All Fields] OR (“saudi arabia”[MeSH Terms] OR (“saudi”[All Fields] AND “arabia”[All Fields]) OR “saudi arabia”[All Fields] OR (“kingdom”[All Fields] AND “saudi”[All Fields] AND “arabia”[All Fields]) OR “kingdom of saudi arabia”[All Fields]) OR “KSA”[All Fields])	15