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. 2022 Nov 18;3(2):100172. doi: 10.1016/j.xjidi.2022.100172

Table 2.

Search String

Number Search String
1 exp qualitative research/
2 2 exp "Surveys and Questionnaires"/
3 3 exp Focus Groups/
4 exp Interview/
5 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
6 exp Integumentary System/
7 exp Skin Diseases/
8 exp Integumentary System Physiological Phenomena/
9 exp Dermatology/
10 6 or 7 or 8 or 9
11 5 and 10
12 exp breast cancer/
13 11 not 12
14 “surveys and questionnaires”/ or exp health care surveys/ or health surveys/ or exp nutrition surveys/ or exp patient health questionnaire/ or exp self report/
15 1 or 3 or 4 or 14
16 10 and 15
17 16 not 12
18 limit 17 to English language
19 limit 18 to yr”2016-Current”
20 limit 19 to (systematic reviews pre 2019 or systematic reviews)
21 limit 19 to (adaptive clinical trial or controlled clinical trial or pragmatic clinical trial or randomized control trial)
22 exp Epidemiologic Studies/
23 exp “Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care”/
24 exp Prognosis/
25 22 or 23 or 24
26 19 and 25
27 limit 19 to (comparative study or evaluation study or validation study)
28 26 or 27
29 21 not 20
30 28 not (20 or 21)
31 19 not (20 or 21 or 28)
32 ([collect∗ or obtain∗ or utilize∗ or employ∗ or “use” or using or uses or used or method∗ or technique∗] adj5 qualitativ∗).mp.
33 18 and 32
34 1 and 18
35 33 or 34
36 qualitativ∗.ti.
37 18 and 36
38 35 or 37