Table A1.
Medline – with Epub Ahead of Print, In-process, Other Non-Indexed Citations.
| Step | Search strategy | References |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | exp Spinal Stenosis/ or ((spinal* or spine or lumbar or root or foraminal) adj3 stenosis).ti,ab. | 8966 |
| 2 | exp Diabetes Mellitus/ or exp Hypertension/ or exp Heart Diseases/ or exp Cardiomyopathies/ or exp Cerebrovascular Disorders/ or exp Asthma/ or exp Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/ or exp Hyperlipidemias/ or exp Hypercholesterolemia/ or exp Thyroid Diseases/ or exp Arthritis, Rheumatoid/ or exp Mental Disorders/ or exp Neoplasms/ or exp Kidney Diseases/ or exp Liver Diseases/ or exp Osteoporosis/ or (diabet* or hypertens* or "high blood pressure" or arrythmia*).ti,ab. or ((heart or cardiac or cardiovascular or coronary) adj3 (disease* or disorder* or failure)).ti,ab. Or ((cerebrovascular or vascular or carotoid* or arter*) adj3 (disorder* or disease*)).ti,ab. or ((mental or anxiety or mood or psychological or sleep) adj3 (disease* or disorder*)).ti,ab. or (depression or schizophren* or psychos* or addiction*).ti,ab. or ((kidney* or renal) adj3 (disease* or disorder* or failure)).ti,ab. or (liver adj3 (disease* or disorder*)).ti,ab. or (asthma* or hyperlipidem* or hypercholesterolemia* or hypertriglyceridemia* or "rheumatoid arthritis" or neoplasm* or cancer* or osteoporosis).ti,ab. | 8366814 |
| 3 | (((coocur* or co-ocur* or coexist* or co-exist* or multipl*) adj3 (disease* or ill* or care or condition* or disorder* or health* or medication* or symptom* or syndrom*)) or chronic).ti,ab. | 1142402 |
| 4 | 2 and 3 | 622591 |
| 5 | exp Comorbidity/ or exp Chronic Disease/ or exp "Severity of Illness Index"/ or exp risk factors/ or (comorbid* or co-morbid* or multimorbid* or multi-morbid* or multidisease* or multi-disease*).ti,ab. or (multiple adj3 (ill* or disease* or condition* or syndrom* or disorder*)).ti,ab. or (chronic* adj3 (disease* or ill* or care or condition* or disorder* or health* or medication* or syndrom* or symptom*)).ti,ab. or "severity of illness index".ti,ab. or "risk factor*".ti,ab. | 1868160 |
| 6 | 4 or 5 | 2160985 |
| 7 | 1 and 6 | 1217 |
| 8 | 7 not (animals not humans).sh. | 1195 |
| 9 | 8 not ((exp child/ or exp infant/ or exp adolescent/) not exp adult/) | 1182 |