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Table 1 Search strategy developed for PubMed database

From: Early detection of sepsis using artificial intelligence: a scoping review protocol

PubMed

Date of search

25 September 2020

Time limitation

1 January 1990 and 30 September 2020

Search string

1

sepsis

  

septic shock

 

2

diagnosis

  

detect

  

identify

  

predict

 

3

prehospital

  

emergency department

 

4

artificial intelligence

  

neural networks

  

deep learning

  

machine learning

  

decision support

  

statistic

  

mathematical model

Number of results

441

  1. Search words are separated into groups according to key concepts for the scoping where relationship between them (search terms on consecutive lines) corresponds to boolean OR operator. For every concept, at least one search term needs to be present in every article.The complete search string will be constructed from substrings 1 to 4 using the boolean AND operator