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Increasing the number of included hits for each search combination would arguably have given diminishing returns.
Search strategy Population #1 edentulous patient Intervention #2 implant OR overdenture OR fixed bridge OR transmandibular implant OR full rehabilitation Outcome #3 bone density OR volume change OR bone formation OR bone apposition OR bone deposition OR bone preserving OR bone preservation OR bone maintain OR bone increase Search combination #1 AND (#2 OR #3).
For instance, only 19 abstracts were listed for the year 2000 with this search combination from all journals.
Further terms and synonyms will be tested and added to each concept before the final search combination (A AND B AND C) is run to retrieve papers discussing theories underpinning the impact of PROMs feedback.
Depending on the relevance and the number of articles found for each search combination, a further limitation might be considered by stepping down the MeSH hierarchical ladder for the first and second set of entry terms.
Each resultant search combination was paired with an indicator of an adherence-promoting intervention (e.g., adherence, compliance, blood glucose monitoring interventions) and an indicator of glycemic outcomes (glycemic control, A1C).
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The choices relating to the search criteria were driven by (a) the agreed scope of the research, (b) the research questions that needed to be answered, as well as (c) the relevance of papers returned from testing various search combinations.
These types of search combinations are very common in fields such as mass spectrometry, where compounds must be identified based on physico-chemical properties and relatively vague information about their putative substituents.
This resulted in 27 search combinations for SUMSearch and Google Scholar.
The sensitivities of many of the search combinations were comparable to those found when searching for primary studies in which adverse effects are secondary outcomes.
The identification of articles containing relevant biological information from PubMed required the use of discriminatory MeSH terms, from specific to more general keyword search combinations.
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