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Appendix I: Search strategies

Question: How effective is phototherapy?Restricted to SRs, meta-analysis and controlled trials

Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1950 to October Week 1 2008

JAUN_phototherapy_medline_131008

# Searches Results
1 randomized controlled trial.pt. 266806
2 controlled clinical trial.pt. 80365
3 DOUBLE BLIND METHOD/ 100865
4 SINGLE BLIND METHOD/ 12612
5 RANDOM ALLOCATION/ 63127
6 RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS/ 57538
7 or/1-6 450144
8 ((single or double or triple or treble) adj5 (blind$ or mask$)).tw,sh. 98482
9 clinical trial.pt. 459524
10 exp CLINICAL TRIAL/ 567163
11 exp CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC/ 213054
12 (clinic$ adj5 trial$).tw,sh. 133527
13 PLACEBOS/ 28238
14 placebo$.tw,sh. 127827
15 random$.tw,sh. 565894
16 or/8-15 993442
17 or/7,16 998089
18 META ANALYSIS/ 19747
19 META ANALYSIS AS TOPIC/ 8778
20 meta analysis.pt. 19747
21 (metaanaly$ or meta-analy$ or (meta adj analy$)).tw,sh. 34987
22 (systematic$ adj5 (review$ or overview$)).tw,sh. 18625
23 (methodologic$ adj5 (review$ or overview$)).tw,sh. 1956
24 or/18-23 48895
25 review$.pt. 1430230
(medline or medlars or embase or cinahl or cochrane or psycinfo or psychinfo or
26 31879
psychlit or psyclit or "web of science" or "science citation" or scisearch).tw.
27 ((hand or manual$) adj2 search$).tw. 3522
(electronic database$ or bibliographic database$ or computeri?ed database$ or online
28 5442
database$).tw,sh.
29 (pooling or pooled or mantel haenszel).tw,sh. 30059
30 (peto or dersimonian or der simonian or fixed effect).tw,sh. 1397
31 or/26-30 63968
32 and/25,31 27218
33 or/24,32 64812
34 letter.pt. 650354
35 case report.tw. 138957

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