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Appendix I: Search strategies

Question: How effective is exchange transfusion? Question 8 (restricted to Srs and RCTs)

Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1950 to November Week 3 2008

JAUN_extransfusion_Q8_medline_011208

# Searches Results
1 randomized controlled trial.pt. 269354
2 controlled clinical trial.pt. 80768
3 DOUBLE BLIND METHOD/ 101524
4 SINGLE BLIND METHOD/ 12756
5 RANDOM ALLOCATION/ 63696
6 RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS/ 58451
7 or/1-6 454611
8 ((single or double or triple or treble) adj5 (blind$ or mask$)).tw,sh. 99216
9 clinical trial.pt. 460950
10 exp CLINICAL TRIAL/ 572520
11 exp CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC/ 215006
12 (clinic$ adj5 trial$).tw,sh. 135409
13 PLACEBOS/ 28379
14 placebo$.tw,sh. 128819
15 random$.tw,sh. 572739
16 or/8-15 1004679
17 or/7,16 1009351
18 META ANALYSIS/ 20239
19 META ANALYSIS AS TOPIC/ 8893
20 meta analysis.pt. 20239
21 (metaanaly$ or meta-analy$ or (meta adj analy$)).tw,sh. 35744
22 (systematic$ adj5 (review$ or overview$)).tw,sh. 19180
23 (methodologic$ adj5 (review$ or overview$)).tw,sh. 1992
24 or/18-23 50031
25 review$.pt. 1443690
(medline or medlars or embase or cinahl or cochrane or psycinfo or psychinfo or
26 32625
psychlit or psyclit or "web of science" or "science citation" or scisearch).tw.
27 ((hand or manual$) adj2 search$).tw. 3596
(electronic database$ or bibliographic database$ or computeri?ed database$ or online
28 5571
database$).tw,sh.
29 (pooling or pooled or mantel haenszel).tw,sh. 30488
30 (peto or dersimonian or der simonian or fixed effect).tw,sh. 1438
31 or/26-30 65157
32 and/25,31 27889
33 or/24,32 66224
34 letter.pt. 654631

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