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Forster A, Mellish K, Farrin A, et al. Development and evaluation of tools and an intervention to improve patient- and carer-centred outcomes in Longer-Term Stroke care and exploration of adjustment post stroke: the LoTS care research programme. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2014 Dec. (Programme Grants for Applied Research, No. 2.6.)

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Development and evaluation of tools and an intervention to improve patient- and carer-centred outcomes in Longer-Term Stroke care and exploration of adjustment post stroke: the LoTS care research programme.

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Appendix 4Project 1: example search strategies (pain)

Database(s): Ovid MEDLINE(R)

Date range searched: 1995 to February week 3 2008.

Date of search: 4 March 2008.

Search strategy

#Searches
1cerebrovascular disorders/
2exp basal ganglia cerebrovascular disease/
3exp brain ischemia/
4exp carotid artery diseases/
5cerebrovascular accident/
6exp brain infarction/
7exp cerebrovascular trauma/
8exp hypoxia-ischemia, brain/
9exp intracranial arterial diseases/
10intracranial arteriovenous malformations/
11exp “intracranial embolism and thrombosis”/
12exp intracranial hemorrhages/
13vasospasm, intracranial/
14vertebral artery dissection/
15aneurysm, ruptured/
16brain injuries/
17brain injury, chronic/
18exp carotid arteries/
19endarterectomy, carotid/
20endarterectomy/
21*heart septal defects, atrial/
22*atrial fibrillation/
23(stroke or poststroke or post-stroke or cerebrovasc$ or brain vasc$ or cerebral vasc$ or cva or apoplex$ or isch?emi$ attack$ or tia or tias or neurologic$ deficit or SAH or AVM).tw.
24((brain$ or cerebr$ or cerebell$ or cortical or vertebrobasilar or hemispher$ or intracran$ or intracerebral$ or infratentorial or supratentorial or MCA or anterior circulation or posterior circulation or basal ganglia) adj10 (isch?emi$ or infarct$ or thrombo$ or emboli$ or occlus$ or hypox$ or vasospasm or obstruction or vasculopathy)).tw.
25((lacunal or cortical) adj5 infarct$).tw.
26((brain$ or cerebr$ or cerebell$ or intracerebral or intracran$ or parenchymal or intraventricular or infratentorial or supratentorial or basal gangli$ or subarachnoid or putaminal or putamen or posterior fossa) adj10 (haemorrhage$ or hemorrhage$ or haematoma$ or hematoma$ or bleed$)).tw.
27((brain or cerebral or intracranial or communicating or giant or basilar or vertebral artery or berry or saccular or ruptured) adj10 aneurysm$).tw.
28(vertebral artery dissection or cerebral art$ disease$).tw.
29((brain or intracranial or basal ganglia or lenticulostriate) adj10 (vascular adj5 (disease$ or disorder or accident or injur$ or trauma$ or insult or event))).tw.
30((isch?emic or apoplectic) adj5 (event or events or insult or attack$)).tw.
31((cerebral vein or cerebral venous or sinus or sagittal) adj5 thrombo$).tw.
32(CVDST or CVT).tw.
33((intracranial or cerebral art$ or basilar art$ or vertebral art$ or vertebrobasilar or vertebral basilar) adj5 (stenosis or isch?emia or insufficiency or arteriosclero$ or atherosclero$ or occlus$)).tw.
34((venous or arteriovenous or brain vasc$) adj5 malformation$).tw.
35((brain or cerebral) adj5 (angioma$ or hemangioma$ or haemangioma$)).tw.
36carotid$.tw.
37(patent foramen ovale or PFO).tw.
38((atrial or atrium or auricular) adj fibrillation).tw.
39asymptomatic cervical bruit.tw.
40exp aphasia/ or anomia/ or hemiplegia/ or hemianopsia/ or exp paresis/ or deglutition disorders/ or dysarthria/ or pseudobulbar palsy/ or muscle spasticity/
41(aphasi$ or apraxi$ or dysphasi$ or dysphagi$ or deglutition disorder$ or swallow$ disorder$ or dysarthri$ or hemipleg$ or hemipar$ or paresis or paretic or hemiaop$ or hemineglect or spasticity or anomi$ or dysnomi$ or acquired brain injur$ or hemiball$).tw.
42((unilateral or visual or hemispatial or attentional or spatial) adj10 neglect).tw.
43or/1-42
44limit 43 to english language
45exp Pain/
46pain$.tw.
47arm/
48shoulder/
49Shoulder Joint/
50Shoulder Dislocation/
51Shoulder Pain/
52(arm$ or shoulder$).tw.
53(upper limb$ or upper extremit$).tw.
54allodynia.tw.
55Complex regional pain syndromes/
56crps$2.tw.
57((post-traumatic or posttraumatic) adj2 dystrophy).tw.
58(reflex adj2 sympathetic adj2 dystrophy).tw.
59(sympathetic adj2 dystrophy adj2 syndrome).tw.
60(sympathetic adj2 reflex adj2 dystrophy).tw.
61or/45-60
6244 and 61
63(exp child/ or exp infant/) not exp adult/
6462 not 63
65guideline.pt.
66practice guideline.pt.
67Practice Guidelines as Topic/
68guideline$.tw.
69Guidelines as topic/
70consensus development conference, NIH.pt.
71nih consensus statement.jn.
72consensus development conference.pt.
73consensus.tw.
74Consensus/
75Consensus Development Conferences as topic/
76Consensus Development Conferences, NIH/
77or/65-76
78(review or review, tutorial or review, academic).pt.
79(medline or medlars or embase).tw,sh.
80(scisearch or psycinfo or psychinfo).tw,sh.
81(psychlit or psyclit).tw,sh.
82cinahl.tw,sh.
83((hand adj2 search$) or (manual$ adj2 search$)).tw,sh.
84(electronic database$ or bibliographic database$ or computeri?ed database$ or online database$).tw,sh.
85(pooling or pooled or mantel haenszel).tw,sh.
86(peto or dersimonian or der simonian or fixed effect).tw,sh.
87or/78-86
88meta-analysis.pt.
89meta-analysis as topic/
90(meta-analys$ or meta analys$ or metanalys$).tw,sh.
91(systematic$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
92(systematic$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
93(quantitativ$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
94(quantitativ$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
95(quantitativ$ adj5 synthesis$).tw,sh.
96(methodologic$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
97(methodologic$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
98(integrative research review$ or research integration).tw.
99or/88-98
100randomized controlled trial.pt.
101controlled clinical trial.pt.
102randomized.ab.
103placebo.ab.
104drug therapy.fs.
105randomly.ab.
106trial.ab.
107groups.ab.
108or/100-107
109humans.sh.
110108 and 109
11164 and 77
112limit 111 to yr=”1995 - 2008”
11364 and (87 or 99)
114113 not 112
115limit 114 to yr=”1995 - 2008”
11664 and 110
117116 not (112 or 115)
118limit 117 to yr=”1995 - 2008”

Databases: EMBASE Classic + EMBASE

Date range searched: 1995 to 2008 week 09.

Date of search: 4 March 2008.

Search strategy

#Searches
1exp cerebrovascular disease/
2stroke$.tw.
3cerebrovascular$.tw.
4(cerebral or cerebellar or brainstem or vertebrobasilar).tw.
5(infarct$ or isch?emi$ or thrombo$ or emboli$).tw.
64 and 5
7carotid$.tw.
8(cerebral or intracerebral or intracranial or parenchymal).tw.
9(brain or intraventricular or brainstem or cerebellar).tw.
10(infratentorial or supratentorial or subarachnoid).tw.
118 or 9 or 10
12(haemorrhage or hemorrhage or haematoma or hematoma).tw.
13(bleeding or aneurysm).tw.
1412 or 13
1511 and 14
16thrombo$.tw.
17(intracranial or (venous adj5 sinus) or (sagittal adj5 venous) or sagittal vein).tw.
1816 and 17
19transient isch?emic attack$.tw.
20reversible isch$ neurologic$.tw.
21venous malformation$.tw.
22arteriovenous malformation$.tw.
2321 or 22
2411 and 23
25exp aphasia/
26exp dysphasia/
27hemianopia/
28hemiplegia/
29hemiparesis/
30(aphas$ or dysphas$ or hemianop).tw.
31(hemipleg$ or hemipar$).tw.
32exp carotid artery surgery/
33or/1-3,6-7,15,18-20,24-32
34human/
35nonhuman/
3634 and 35
3735 not 36
3833 not 37
39exp Pain/
40pain$.tw.
41ARM MOVEMENT/ or ARM/ or arm muscle/ or ARM WEAKNESS/
42SHOULDER DISLOCATION/ or SHOULDER PAIN/ or SHOULDER/ or shoulder injury/ or shoulder girdle/ or shoulder hand syndrome/ or frozen shoulder/
43(arm$ or shoulder$).tw.
44upper limb$.tw.
45upper extremit$.tw.
46Allodynia/
47allodynia.tw.
48exp Complex regional pain syndrome/
49crps$2.tw.
50((post-traumatic or posttraumatic) adj2 dystrophy).tw.
51(reflex adj2 sympathetic adj2 dystrophy).tw.
52(sympathetic adj2 dystrophy adj2 syndrome).tw.
53(sympathetic adj2 reflex adj2 dystrophy).tw.
54or/39-53
5538 and 54
56(exp child/ or exp infant/) not (exp adult/ or exp adolescent/)
5755 not 56
58limit 57 to english language
59((clinical or practice) adj2 guideline$).tw.
60(consensus adj3 statement$).tw.
61CONSENSUS/
62exp practice guideline/
63guideline$.ti.
64guidelines/
65(consensus adj2 development).mp.
66(evidence adj2 based adj2 (protocol$ or guideline$)).tw.
67(clinical adj2 protocol$).tw.
68nursing protocol/
69consensus conference.tw.
70or/59-69
71exp review/
72(medline or medlars or embase or pubmed).ti,ab,sh.
73(scisearch or psychlit or psyclit).ti,ab,sh.
74(psycinfo or psychinfo).ti,ab,sh.
75cinahl.ti,ab,sh.
76((hand adj2 search$) or (manual$ adj search$)).tw.
77((electronic adj database$) or (bibliographic adj database$)).tw.
78((pooled adj analys$) or pooling).tw.
79(peto or dersimonian or (fixed adj effect) or mantel haenszel).tw.
80RETRACTED ARTICLE/
81or/72-80
8271 and 81
83exp meta analysis/
84meta?analys$.tw,sh.
85(systematic$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
86(systematic$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
87(quantitativ$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
88(quantitativ$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
89(methodologic$ adj5 review$).tw,sh.
90(methodologic$ adj5 overview$).tw,sh.
91((integrative adj5 research adj5 review$) or (research adj5 integration)).tw.
92(quantitativ$ adj5 synthesi$).tw,sh.
93or/83-92
9482 or 93
95clinical trial/
96randomized controlled trial/
97randomization/
98single blind procedure/
99double blind procedure/
100crossover procedure/
101placebo/
102randomi?ed controlled trial$.tw.
103rct.tw.
104random allocation.tw.
105randomly allocated.tw.
106allocated randomly.tw.
107(allocated adj2 random).tw.
108single blind$.tw.
109double blind$.tw.
110((treble or triple) adj blind$).tw.
111placebo$.tw.
112prospective study/
113or/95-112
114case study/
115case report.tw.
116abstract report/
117letter/
118or/114-117
119113 not 118
12058 and 70
121limit 120 to yr=”1995 - 2008”
12258 and 94
123limit 122 to yr=”1995 - 2008”
124123 not 121
12558 and 119
126limit 125 to yr=”1995 - 2008”
127126 not (121 or 124)
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