Download APPENDIX TABLE 5. SEARCH PROTOCOL USED FOR

APPENDIX TABLE 5. SEARCH PROTOCOL USED FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.
Pub Med Search Strategy
Search each string separately in PubMed and then used the advanced search tab and
combine the three searches (#1 AND #2 AND #3). Then limit to articles after 1/1/1990.
Results of combined search strategies = 1,265 Articles
Search #1:
"Physician's Practice Patterns"[mesh] OR "Drug Prescriptions"[mesh] OR "Drug
Utilization"[mesh] OR "impact"[tiab] OR "impacts"[tiab] OR "change"[tiab] OR
"changes"[tiab] OR "decrease"[tiab] OR "decreases"[tiab] OR "increase"[tiab] OR
"increases"[tiab] OR "effect"[tiab] OR "effects"[tiab] OR "results"[tiab] OR "outcome"[tiab]
OR "outcomes"[tiab] OR "decline"[tiab] OR "declines"[tiab]
Search #2:
"United States Food and Drug Administration"[mesh] OR "Food and drug
Administration"[tiab] OR "fda"[tiab] OR (“regulatory”[tiab] AND (“US”[tiab] OR “United
States” [tiab]))
Search #3:
"Drug Labeling"[mesh] OR "advisory"[tiab] OR "advisories"[tiab] OR "warning"[tiab] OR
"warnings"[tiab] OR "black box"[tiab] OR "alert"[tiab] OR "alerts"[tiab]
Web of Science Search Strategy
Go to the “advanced search tab” and enter the following, then combine the three
searches (#1 AND #2 AND #3). Then limit to articles after 1/1/1990. Results of combined
search strategies = 609 Articles
Search #1:
TS = ("Physician's Practice Patterns" OR "Drug Prescriptions" OR "Drug Utilization" OR
"impact" OR "impacts" OR "change" OR "changes" OR "decrease" OR "decreases" OR
"increase" OR "increases" OR "effect" OR "effects" OR "results" OR "outcome" OR
"outcomes" OR "decline" OR "declines")
Search #2:
TS="regulatory" AND TS=("US" OR "United States") ) OR TS="fda" OR TS="food and
drug administration"
Search #3:
TS = ("Drug Labeling" OR "advisory" OR "advisories" OR "warning" OR "warnings" OR
"black box" OR "alert" OR "alerts")