| PMC full text: | Published online 2011 Jan 4. doi: 10.1007/s00586-010-1675-4
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Table 6
Search strategy for Medline (via OvidSP)
| Part A: Generic search for randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials | |
| 1 | Clinical Trial .pt. |
| 2 | randomized.ab,ti. |
| 3 | placebo.ab,ti. |
| 4 | dt.fs. |
| 5 | randomly.ab,ti. |
| 6 | trial.ab,ti. |
| 7 | groups.ab,ti. |
| 8 | or/1–7 |
| 9 | Animals/ |
| 10 | Humans/ |
| 11 | 9 not (9 and 10) |
| 12 | 8 not 11 |
| Part B: Specific search for low back problems | |
| 13 | dorsalgia.ti,ab. |
| 14 | exp Back Pain/ |
| 15 | backache.ti,ab. |
| 16 | exp Low Back Pain/ |
| 17 | (lumbar adj pain).ti,ab. |
| 18 | lumbago.ti,ab. |
| 19 | or/13-18 |
| Part C: Specific search for economic evaluation | |
| 20 | economics/ |
| 21 | exp “costs and cost analysis”/ |
| 22 | economics, dental/ |
| 23 | exp “economics, hospital”/ |
| 24 | economics, medical/ |
| 25 | economics, nursing/ |
| 26 | economics, pharmaceutical/ |
| 27 | (economic$ or cost or costs or costly or costing or price or prices or pricing or pharmacoeconomic$).ti,ab. |
| 28 | (expenditure$ not energy).ti,ab. |
| 29 | (value adj1 money).ti,ab. |
| 30 | budget$.ti,ab. |
| 31 | or/20–30 |
| 32 | ((energy or oxygen) adj cost).ti,ab. |
| 33 | (metabolic adj cost).ti,ab. |
| 34 | ((energy or oxygen) adj expenditure).ti,ab. |
| 35 | or/32–34 |
| 36 | 31 not 35 |
| Part D: Combine | |
| 37 | 12 AND 19 AND 36 |