Table 2
From: Post-trial follow-up methodology in large randomized controlled trials: a systematic review protocol
Step | Search domain | Search terms |
1 | Randomized controlled trials | randomized controlled trial.pt. or random?ed control* trial*.mp. or random allocation/ |
2 | Post- trial | (Post-trial or post trial or attrition or drop out? or dropout? or follow-up or followup? or extension* or trial closure? or long-term or longterm or extended observation* or extended stud*).mp. |
3 | Outcomes | (cost effective* or cost benefit* or costs or survivors or hospital admission? or hospitali?ation? or primary outcome* or secondary outcome* or primary endpoint? or secondary endpoint? or composite endpoint? or primary end point? or secondary end point? or composite end point? or outcome measure* or outcome assessment or outcomes research).mp. or treatment outcome/ |
4 | Types of methodological follow-up | electronic data processings/or automatic data processing/or “surveys and questionnaires”/or telephone/or interview/or data collection methods/or data collection/or data linkage/or data system?.mp. or data reporting/or epidemiologic method?.mp. or incidence.mp. or mortality.mp. or health episode statistics.mp. or electronic health record?.mp. or electronic patient record?.mp. or computeri?ed record-linkage system?.mp. or national register*.mp. or national database*.mp. or episode of care/or routine data.mp. or routinely collected data.mp. |
5 | 1 and 2 and 3 or 4 | |
6 | 5 | exp animals/not humans.sh. |
7 | 6 | limit to (abstracts and English language and yr=“2006 -Current”) |