DOI: 10.34944/dspace/8819
title: Leave Against Medical Advice Systematic Review Search Strategy

description: To identify studies to include or consider for this scoping review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The medical librarian (TN) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another medical librarian following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), Cochrane Central (Wiley), Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL (EbscoHost), and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov), search.bioPreprint (https://www.hsls.pitt.edu/), and the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com) website. There were no limits to the search. All final searches were performed on April 20, 2023 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix(___). A summary of the search results from databases: PubMed (NLM) from inception to 4/20/2023 (2,080 Results) Cochrane Central (Wiley) from inception to 4/20/2023 (236 Results) Embase (Elsevier) from inception to 4/20/2023 (5,650 Results) CINAHL (EbscoHost) from inception to 4/20/2023 (1,286 Results) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) from inception to 4/20/2023 (909 Results) The search resulted in 10,675 studies and 2,746 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian (TN) using the EndNote 20 duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 7,929 records to screen from databases or registers and 2 records to screen from other methods, resulting in a total of 7,931 records. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.
description: To identify studies to include or consider for this scoping review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The medical librarian (TN) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another medical librarian following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), Cochrane Central (Wiley), Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL (EbscoHost), and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov), search.bioPreprint (https://www.hsls.pitt.edu/), and the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com) website. There were no limits to the search. All final searches were performed on April 20, 2023 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix(___).