Table 1 Literature search strategy and results.
From: The incidence of acute encephalitis syndrome in Western industrialised and tropical countries
Search | Search Strategy | Dates of original search | Numbers of articles (No limits) | Title screened articles | Totals from title screen | Duplicates removed | Further Title & Abstract or paper screen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Pubmed | "Incidence or epidemiology" AND "encephalitis". | 1950-autumn 2007 | 6895 | 479 | Â | 1083 | 87 |
2 Pubmed | "encephalitis and epidemiology" AND" Japanese encephalitis Virus and Incidence" | 1950-autumn 2007 | 492 | 66 (-34 duplicates) = 32 | 527 | Â | Â |
3 Pubmed | "encephalitis and epidemiology" AND "herpes and Incidence" | 1950-autumn 2007 | 266 | 43(-27 duplicates) = 16 | Â | Â | Â |
4 OVID | "Incidence or epidemiology" AND "encephalitis". | 1950-autumn 2007 | Exploding each term 509 1467 – 48 duplicates = 1419 | 445 | 445 |  |  |
5 EMBASE | "Incidence or epidemiology" AND "encephalitis". [Limits English, Human] | 1966-autumn 2007 | 1631 exploded terms 3369 – duplicates 3364 | 300 | 300 |  |  |
Totals | Â | Â | 12,436 | 1,272 | 1,272 | 1,083 | 87 |