Table 1 Example of MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar database searches to determine the pooled magnitude and predictors of unfavorable treatment outcome in surgically treated patients with intestinal obstruction in Ethiopia, 2022
Sources | Search Engine | Number of studies |
|---|---|---|
PubMed | MeSH terms was Magnitude[All Fields] AND predictors[All Fields] AND unfavorable[All Fields] AND (“treatment outcome“[MeSH Terms] OR (“treatment“[All Fields] AND “outcome“[All Fields]) OR “treatment outcome“[All Fields]) AND (“surgical procedures, operative“[MeSH Terms] OR (“surgical“[All Fields] AND “procedures“[All Fields] AND “operative“[All Fields]) OR “operative surgical procedures“[All Fields] OR “surgically“[All Fields]) AND treated[All Fields] AND (“patients“[MeSH Terms] OR “patients“[All Fields]) AND (“intestinal obstruction“[MeSH Terms] OR (“intestinal“[All Fields] AND “obstruction“[All Fields]) OR “intestinal obstruction“[All Fields]) AND (“Ethiopia“[MeSH Terms] OR “Ethiopia“[All Fields], OR Ethiopia* [All Fields]). | 44 |
Science Direct | ((unfavorable management outcome OR favorable management outcome and predictors OR Associated factors) AND Ethiopia AND (incidence OR prevalence OR magnitude)) | 36 |
scholar | A combination of the above key terms (favorable management outcome, unfavorable management outcome, intestinal obstruction, operative surgical procedures, prevalence, magnitude, predictors, associated factor, Ethiopia) | 52 |
Medline | Â | 8 |
Embase | Â | 6 |
JBI database | Â | 6 |
AJOL | Â | 2 |
Manual search | Â | 4 |
Research repositories | Â | 2 |
Total retrieved articles | Â | 160 |
Finally full articles relevant to our review | Â | 12 |