Search Strategy (original) (raw)

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Note: On February 25, 2011, we added the search term “Alcohol Deterrents”[MeSH], which resulted in 28 (all non-duplicate) abstracts.

Note: On March 7, 2011, per a TEP member's suggestion, we added the terms risky alcohol*, risky drink*, alcohol misuse, alcohol abuse, hazardous alcohol*, hazardous drink*, harmful alcohol*, and harmful drink* which resulted in 428 (77 nonduplicate) abstracts.

Note: On April 28, 2011, we amended the protocol to exclude studies of pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence. However, because our scope included pharmacotherapy at the time of the searches, the pharmaceutical-related terms remain in the search strategy above.

A search with analogous terms was performed in the following databases:

• IPA, CINAHL®, and PsycINFO® (2/1/2011) = 468 (164 after duplicates removed)
• Embase® (2/1/2011) = 1,753 (1,060 after duplicates removed)
• Cochrane (1/31/2011) = 2,570 (1,257 after duplicates removed)

Total references identified by the main searches = 8,706

The following update searches were performed on August 29, 2011

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Searches with analogous terms and publication dates in the year 2011 were performed on August 29, 2011 in the following databases:

• IPA, CINAHL®, and PsycINFO® = 4
• Embase® = 84
• Cochrane = 173

Total additional references identified by the update searches = 320; 275 remained after duplicates were removed.

Handsearches of the following references yielded 227 articles

A search of clinicaltrials.gov yielded 282 trials that resulted in 216 publications

Total references from main and update searches, handsearches, and the clinicaltrials.gov search, minus duplicates = 6,265

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