Table 1.
Search strategy
| Search set plus description | Search strategy | Results |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Crohn's Disease | “Crohn Disease”[Mesh] OR Crohn[tiab] OR Crohns[tiab] OR Crohn’s[tiab] | 62,604 |
| #2 Ileocolonic Resection | “ileocolonic resection”[tiab] OR “ileocolonic resections”[tiab] OR “ileo-colonic resection”[tiab] OR “ileo-colonic resections”[tiab] | 212 |
| #3 Ileostomy | “Ileostomy”[Mesh] OR ileostomy[tiab] OR ileostomies[tiab] | 10,742 |
| #4 Colostomy | “Colostomy”[Mesh] OR colostomy[tiab] OR colostomies[tiab] | 13,947 |
| #5 Diverted bowel | “diverted bowel”[tiab] OR “diverted bowels”[tiab] OR “fecal diversion”[tiab] OR “fecal diversions”[tiab] OR “faecal diversion”[tiab] OR “faecal diversions”[tiab] OR “diverted large bowel”[tiab] OR “diverted large bowels”[tiab] | 756 |
| #6 Stricturotomy | stricturotomy[tiab] OR stricturotomies[tiab] | 62 |
| #7 Combining procedures w/OR | #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 | 22,930 |
| #8 Combining Crohn's w/procedures | #1 AND #7 | 1,796 |
| #9 Eliminate animal studies | #8 NOT (animals[MeSH Terms] NOT humans[MeSH Terms]) | 1,794 |
| #10 Limit to English language articles | #9 AND English[lang] | 1,542 |
Database: MEDLINE [via PubMed]; search date: 7/8/2022. Articles were exported from MEDLINE to an EndNote 20 Library; only citations from 2000 to the present (n = 843 citations) were then sent to Covidence, screening software, for review.