NCBI Bookshelf. Search strategies used for the patient experience guidance are outlined below and were run as per the NICE Guidelines Manual Searches for the thematic qualitative review were run as part of the Warwick University scoping report. See Appendix B for further details of these search strategies. Searches were conducted by combining study filter terms with the question terms using the AND Boolean operator.
For Medline and Embase an economic filter instead of a study type filter was added to the clinical search strategy. All searches were run up to 9 th May unless otherwise stated. Any studies added to the databases after this date were not included unless specifically stated in the text. View in own window. Search constructed by combining the columns in the following table using the AND Boolean operator.
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Appendix E Literature search strategies. The search strategies are presented below in the following order: View in own window Section E. These include filters for epidemiological study designs and health economic studies Section E. Study filter search terms E. Searches by specific questions E.
