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Table 1 PubMed search strategy for identifying studies

From: Epidemiology of heart failure in pediatric populations in low- and middle-income countries: a protocol for a systematic review

Search

Query

#1

“heart failure” OR “heart fail*” OR “cardiac failure” OR “cardiac fail*” OR “cardiac insufficiency” OR “cardiac insuffic*”

#2

“Infant” OR “toddler” OR “school-age” OR “gradeschooler” OR “grade schooler” OR “grade-schooler” OR “teen” OR “teenage” OR “teenager*” OR “teen ager” OR “adolescent” OR “adolesc*” OR “Youth*” OR “child” OR “children” OR “paediatric” OR “pediatric” OR “pediatr*” OR “peaditr*” OR “newborn” OR “new born” OR “new-born” OR “neonate”

#3

Afghanistan OR Albania OR Algeria OR American Samoa OR Angola OR Argentina OR Armenia OR Azerbaijan OR Bangladesh OR Belarus OR Belize OR Benin OR Bhutan OR Bolivia OR Bosnia and Herzegovina OR Botswana OR Brazil OR Bulgaria OR Burkina Faso OR Burundi OR Cabo Verde OR Cambodia OR Cameroon OR “Central African Republic” OR Chad OR China OR Colombia OR Comoros OR “Democratic Republic of Congo” OR Congo OR “Republic of Congo” OR Costa Rica OR “Ivory Coast” OR “Cote d’Ivoire” OR Cuba OR Djibouti OR Dominica OR “Dominican Republic” OR Ecuador OR Egypt OR “El Salvador” OR Salvador OR “Equatorial Guinea ” OR Guinea OR Eritrea OR Ethiopia OR Fiji OR Gabon OR Gambia OR Georgia OR Ghana OR Grenada OR Guatemala OR Guinea OR Guinea-Bissau OR Guyana OR Haiti OR Honduras OR India OR Indonesia OR Iran. OR Iraq OR Jamaica OR Jordan OR Kazakhstan OR Kenya OR Kiribati OR Korea OR Kosovo OR Kyrgyz OR Lao PDR OR Lao OR Lebanon OR Lesotho OR Liberia OR Libya OR Macedonia OR Madagascar OR Malawi OR Malaysia OR Maldives OR Mali OR Marshall Islands OR Mauritania OR Mauritius OR Mexico OR Micronesia OR Moldova OR Mongolia OR Montenegro OR Morocco OR Mozambique OR Myanmar OR Namibia OR Nepal OR Nicaragua OR Niger OR Nigeria OR Pakistan OR Palau OR Panama OR Papua New Guinea OR Paraguay OR Peru OR Philippines OR Romania OR “Russian Federation” OR Rwanda OR Samoa OR “Sao Tomé and Principe” OR Senegal OR Serbia OR “Sierra Leone” OR Solomon Islands OR Somalia OR “South Africa” OR South Sudan OR Sri Lanka OR St Lucia OR St. Vincent and the Grenadines OR Sudan OR Suriname OR Swaziland OR Syrian Arab Republic OR Tajikistan OR Tanzania OR Thailand OR Timor-Leste OR Togo OR Tonga OR Tunisia OR Turkey OR Turkmenistan OR Tuvalu OR Uganda OR Ukraine OR Uzbekistan OR Vanuatu OR Venezuela OR Vietnam OR “West Bank and Gaza” OR Gaza OR Yemen OR Zambia OR Zimbabwe NOT (“guinea pig” OR “guinea pigs” OR “aspergillus niger”)

#4

#1 AND #2 AND #3

#5

#4 Limits: from 2000/01/01 to 2017/06/30