Hashimoto’s Disease Systematic Review Search Strategy

To identify studies to include or consider for this systematic review, the review team worked with a librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The librarian (TN) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy. All final searches were peer-reviewed by another librarian (Sarah Bauman) following the Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS checklist). The search was limited by date from 1993 to Present and to adults only. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), Embase (Elsevier), Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley), and CINAHL (Ebscohost) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included Trip Pro Database (https://www.tripdatabase.com/) and MedRxiv (https://www.medrxiv.org/). All final searches were performed on February 16, 2024 by the librarian and were fully reported on February 20, 2024. The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix(___). They are also archived at [DOI]. A summary of the search results: PubMed (NLM) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (808 Results) Embase (Elsevier) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (2,143 Results) Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (536 Results) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (35 Results) CINAHL (EbscoHost) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (70 Results) Trip Pro Database (https://www.tripdatabase.com/) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (226 results) MedRxiv (https://www.medrxiv.org/) from 1993 to 2/16/2024 (33 results) The search resulted in 3,842 studies. 1,158 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian [TN] using EndNote 20 and following the Wichor Bramer duplicate identification strategy for EndNote. This resulted in 2,495 records to screen from databases and 250 records from websites, resulting in a total of 2,684 records. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.