Table 1 Literature search terms (in quotation marks) used in the Ovid program
From: Critical evaluation of stents in coronary angioplasty: a systematic review
Search terms | Number of papers | |
|---|---|---|
Stent type | ||
1 | “bare metal stent ti,ab” OR “BMS ti,ab” | 23,059 |
2 | “drug eluting stent ti,ab” OR “DES ti,ab” | 1,232,392 |
3 | “everolimus eluting stent ti,ab” OR “EES ti,ab” | 13,972 |
4 | “sirolimus eluting stent ti,ab” OR “SES ti,ab” | 74,773 |
5 | “zotarolimus ti,ab” OR “ZES ti,ab” | 4866 |
6 | “biolimus eluting stent ti,ab” OR “BES ti,ab” | 11,993 |
7 | “paclitaxel eluting stent ti,ab” OR “PES ti,ab” | 34,967 |
8 | “bioresorbable stent ti,ab” OR “bioresorbable scaffold ti,ab” OR “BRS ti,ab” | 15,216 |
9 | 1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5 OR 5 OR 6 OR 7 OR 8 | 1,343,784 |
Stent structure | ||
10 | “structure ti,ab” OR “design ti,ab” OR “strut ti,ab” OR “strut spacing ti,ab” OR “strut thickness ti,ab” OR “open cell design ti,ab” OR "closed cell design ti,ab” | 4,341,522 |
11 | 9 AND 10 | 17,375 |
12 | “coronary ti,ab” | 884,389 |
13 | 11 AND 12 | 3,191 |
Search limitations | ||
14 | Limited to English language | 3124 |
15 | Limited to human | 2392 |
16 | Limited to full text | 356 |
17 | Duplicates removed | 269 |