Prevalence of Vestibular Disorders in Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Scoping Review Search Strategy

To identify studies to include or consider for this scoping review, the review team worked with a librarian (BF) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-ScR extension was followed for search reporting. The librarian (BF) 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, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another librarian (TN) following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), CINAHL (EbscoHost), and Embase (Elsevier), using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included Trip Pro Database, clinicaltrials.gov (Classic), and WHO International Clinical Trials. The search was limited to studies published since 1990 and a filter to exclude studies on children was used. All final searches were performed on November 8, 2023 by the librarian and were fully reported (BF). The search resulted in 7,472 studies 1,239 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian using the EndNote 20 and following the Bramer et al. (2016) duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 6,233 studies that were screened by title and abstract by two 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.