| 1. | ((mini or minor or mild or acute) adj2 (stroke or strokes)).ti,ab. |
| 2. | exp Brain Ischemia/ |
| 3. | ((brain or brainstem or cerebr* or cerebell* or vertebrobasil* or verte brobasil* or hemisphere* or intracran* or intracerebral or infratentorial or supratentorial or mca*1 or anterior circulation or carotid or crescendo or transient or lacunar) adj3 isch?emi*).ti,ab. |
| 4. | Ischemic Attack, Transient/ |
| 5. | (isch?emi* adj2 attack*).ti,ab. |
| 6. | TIA*.ti,ab. |
| 7. | or/1-6 |
| 8. | letter/ |
| 9. | editorial/ |
| 10. | news/ |
| 11. | exp historical article/ |
| 12. | Anecdotes as Topic/ |
| 13. | comment/ |
| 14. | case report/ |
| 15. | (letter or comment*).ti. |
| 16. | or/8-15 |
| 17. | randomized controlled trial/ or random*.ti,ab. |
| 18. | 16 not 17 |
| 19. | animals/ not humans/ |
| 20. | exp Animals, Laboratory/ |
| 21. | exp Animal Experimentation/ |
| 22. | exp Models, Animal/ |
| 23. | exp Rodentia/ |
| 24. | (rat or rats or mouse or mice).ti. |
| 25. | or/18-24 |
| 26. | 7 not 25 |
| 27. | limit 26 to English language |
| 28. | (exp child/ or exp pediatrics/ or exp infant/) not (exp adolescent/ or exp adult/ or exp middle age/ or exp aged/) |
| 29. | 27 not 28 |
| 30. | exp tomography/ |
| 31. | tomograph*.ti,ab. |
| 32. | (NCCT or CT or UHCT).ti,ab. |
| 33. | ((CAT or body) adj2 scan*).ti,ab. |
| 34. | or/30-33 |
| 35. | Magnetic Resonance Imaging/ |
| 36. | ((magnetic or nuclear) adj2 resonance adj3 imag*).ti,ab. |
| 37. | (MRI or NMR or NMRI or fMRI or MR or DWI).ti,ab. |
| 38. | Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging/ |
| 39. | ((diffusion-weighted or T2-weighted) adj2 imag*).ti,ab. |
| 40. | or/35-39 |
| 41. | 29 and 34 and 40 |
| 42. | Meta-Analysis/ |
| 43. | Meta-Analysis as Topic/ |
| 44. | (meta analy* or metanaly* or metaanaly* or meta regression).ti,ab. |
| 45. | ((systematic* or evidence*) adj2 (review* or overview*)).ti,ab. |
| 46. | (reference list* or bibliograph* or hand search* or manual search* or relevant journals).ab. |
| 47. | (search strategy or search criteria or systematic search or study selection or data extraction).ab. |
| 48. | (search* adj4 literature).ab. |
| 49. | (medline or pubmed or cochrane or embase or psychlit or psyclit or psychinfo or psycinfo or cinahl or science citation index or bids or cancerlit).ab. |
| 50. | cochrane.jw. |
| 51. | ((multiple treatment* or indirect or mixed) adj2 comparison*).ti,ab. |
| 52. | or/42-51 |
| 53. | randomized controlled trial.pt. |
| 54. | controlled clinical trial.pt. |
| 55. | randomi#ed.ab. |
| 56. | placebo.ab. |
| 57. | randomly.ab. |
| 58. | clinical trials as topic.sh. |
| 59. | trial.ti. |
| 60. | or/53-59 |
| 61. | exp “sensitivity and specificity”/ |
| 62. | (sensitivity or specificity).ti,ab. |
| 63. | ((pre test or pretest or post test) adj probability).ti,ab. |
| 64. | (predictive value* or PPV or NPV).ti,ab. |
| 65. | likelihood ratio*.ti,ab. |
| 66. | likelihood function/ |
| 67. | ((area under adj4 curve) or AUC).ti,ab. |
| 68. | (receive* operat* characteristic* or receive* operat* curve* or ROC curve*).ti,ab. |
| 69. | (diagnos* adj3 (performance* or accurac* or utilit* or value* or efficien* or effectiveness)).ti,ab. |
| 70. | gold standard.ab. |
| 71. | or/61-70 |
| 72. | 41 and (52 or 60 or 71) |
| 73. | 93 or 72 |
From: Evidence review for TIA imaging
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