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. 2022 Feb 26;13(4):447–456. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1552

TABLE 4.

Adding the institution search field (Ovid MEDLINE)

Line of existing filter (2012 version)

Changes highlighted in bold

*note that quotation marks were added to “Cote d'Ivoire” as the apostrophe is an unsupported character in Ovid MEDLINE

2. (Africa or Asia or Caribbean or West Indies or South America or Latin America or Central America).hw,kf,ti,ab,cp,in.
3. (Afghanistan or Angola or Armenia or Armenian or Bangladesh or Benin or Bhutan or Bolivia or Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Burundi or Cambodia or Central African Republic or Chad or Comoros or Congo or “Cote d'Ivoire” or Ivory Coast or Djibouti or Egypt or El Salvador or Eritrea or Ethiopia or Gambia or Gaza or Georgia or Ghana or Guatemala or Guinea or Guam or Haiti or Honduras or India or Indonesia or Kenya or Kiribati or Korea or Kosovo or Kyrgyzstan or Lao PDR or Lesotho or Liberia or Madagascar or Malawi or Mali or Mauritania or Moldova or Mongolia or Morocco or Mozambique or Myanmar or Myanma or Nepal or Nicaragua or Niger or Nigeria or Pakistan or Paraguay or Philippines or Philipines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Rwanda or Ruanda or Sao Tome or Senegal or Sri Lanka or Solomon Islands or Somalia or Sudan or Swaziland or Tajikistan or Tanzania or Timor‐Leste or Tokelau or Togo or Tuvalu or Uganda or Ukraine or Uzbekistan or Vanuatu or Vietnam or Viet Nam or West Bank or Yemen or Zambia or Zimbabwe).hw,kf,ti,ab,cp,in.
Existing filter (2020 LMIC COUNTRY NAMES AND GENERAL LMIC TERMS Version)

Changes highlighted in bold

Recommend adding an additional line to the filter to search for institution as it does not work by adding .in to the existing search fields (ti,ab,sh,kf.)

Note: added .in to the country names and regions only (afghanistan OR albania OR algeria OR american samoa OR angola OR “antigua and barbuda” OR antigua OR barbuda OR argentina OR armenia OR armenian OR aruba OR azerbaijan OR bahrain OR bangladesh OR barbados OR republic of belarus OR belarus OR byelarus OR belorussia OR byelorussian OR belize OR british honduras OR benin OR dahomey OR bhutan OR bolivia OR “bosnia and herzegovina” OR bosnia OR herzegovina OR botswana OR bechuanaland OR brazil OR brasil OR bulgaria OR burkina faso OR burkina fasso OR upper volta OR burundi OR urundi OR cabo verde OR cape verde OR cambodia OR kampuchea OR khmer republic OR cameroon OR cameron OR cameroun OR central african republic OR ubangi shari OR chad OR chile OR china OR colombia OR comoros OR comoro islands OR iles comores OR mayotte OR democratic republic of the congo OR democratic republic congo OR congo OR zaire OR costa rica OR “cote d'ivoire” OR “cote d’ ivoire” OR cote divoire OR cote d ivoire OR ivory coast OR croatia OR cuba OR cyprus OR czech republic OR czechoslovakia OR djibouti OR french somaliland OR dominica OR dominican republic OR ecuador OR egypt OR united arab republic OR el salvador OR equatorial guinea OR spanish guinea OR eritrea OR estonia OR eswatini OR swaziland OR ethiopia OR fiji OR gabon OR gabonese republic OR gambia OR “georgia (republic)” OR georgian OR ghana OR gold coast OR gibraltar OR greece OR grenada OR guam OR guatemala OR guinea OR guinea bissau OR guyana OR british guiana OR haiti OR hispaniola OR honduras OR hungary OR india OR indonesia OR timor OR iran OR iraq OR isle of man OR jamaica OR jordan OR kazakhstan OR kazakh OR kenya OR “democratic people's republic of korea” OR republic of korea OR north korea OR south korea OR korea OR kosovo OR kyrgyzstan OR kirghizia OR kirgizstan OR kyrgyz republic OR kirghiz OR laos OR lao pdr OR “lao people's democratic republic” OR latvia OR lebanon OR lebanese republic OR lesotho OR basutoland OR liberia OR libya OR libyan arab jamahiriya OR lithuania OR macau OR macao OR republic of north macedonia OR macedonia OR madagascar OR malagasy republic OR malawi OR nyasaland OR malaysia OR malay federation OR malaya federation OR maldives OR indian ocean islands OR indian ocean OR mali OR malta OR micronesia OR federated states of micronesia OR kiribati OR marshall islands OR nauru OR northern mariana islands OR palau OR tuvalu OR mauritania OR mauritius OR mexico OR moldova OR moldovian OR mongolia OR montenegro OR morocco OR ifni OR mozambique OR portuguese east africa OR myanmar OR burma OR namibia OR nepal OR netherlands antilles OR nicaragua OR niger OR nigeria OR oman OR muscat OR pakistan OR panama OR papua new guinea OR new guinea OR paraguay OR peru OR philippines OR philipines OR phillipines OR phillippines OR poland OR “polish people's republic” OR portugal OR portuguese republic OR puerto rico OR romania OR russia OR russian federation OR ussr OR soviet union OR union of soviet socialist republics OR rwanda OR ruanda OR samoa OR pacific islands OR polynesia OR samoan islands OR navigator island OR navigator islands OR “sao tome and principe” OR saudi arabia OR senegal OR serbia OR seychelles OR sierra leone OR slovakia OR slovak republic OR slovenia OR melanesia OR solomon island OR solomon islands OR norfolk island OR norfolk islands OR somalia OR south africa OR south sudan OR sri lanka OR ceylon OR “saint kitts and nevis” OR “st. kitts and nevis” OR saint lucia OR “st. lucia” OR “saint vincent and the grenadines” OR saint vincent OR “st. vincent” OR grenadines OR sudan OR suriname OR surinam OR dutch guiana OR netherlands guiana OR syria OR syrian arab republic OR tajikistan OR tadjikistan OR tadzhikistan OR tadzhik OR tanzania OR tanganyika OR thailand OR siam OR timor leste OR east timor OR togo OR togolese republic OR tonga OR “trinidad and tobago” OR trinidad OR tobago OR tunisia OR turkey OR turkmenistan OR turkmen OR uganda OR ukraine OR uruguay OR uzbekistan OR uzbek OR vanuatu OR new hebrides OR venezuela OR vietnam OR viet nam OR middle east OR west bank OR gaza OR palestine OR yemen OR yugoslavia OR zambia OR zimbabwe OR northern rhodesia OR global south OR africa south of the sahara OR sub‐saharan africa OR subsaharan africa OR africa, central OR central africa OR africa, northern OR north africa OR northern africa OR magreb OR maghrib OR sahara OR africa, southern OR southern africa OR africa, eastern OR east africa OR eastern africa OR africa, western OR west africa OR western africa OR west indies OR indian ocean islands OR caribbean OR central america OR latin america OR “south and central america” OR south america OR asia, central OR central asia OR asia, northern OR north asia OR northern asia OR asia, southeastern OR southeastern asia OR south eastern asia OR southeast asia OR south east asia OR asia, western OR western asia OR europe, eastern OR east europe OR eastern europe).in.