Search strategy and evidence selection

Search strategy and evidence selection

Search strategy

For the clinical evidence

Pubmed (Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to January Week 4 2016, Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations February 05, 2016)

1. Cellvizio.mp.

2. Microscopy, Confocal/ or Confocal laser endomicroscopy.mp.

3. Confocal laser microscopic imaging.mp.

4. Pancreatic Cyst/

5. Pancreatic Neoplasms/ or pancreatic cancer.mp.

6. 2 or 3

7. 4 or 5

8. 6 and 7

9. 1 or 8

10. remove duplicates from 9

11. limit 10 to (english language and humans and yr="2006 -Current")

Embase (Embase 1974 to 2016 February 05)

1. Cellvizio.mp.

2. Confocal laser endomicroscopy.mp. or confocal laser microscopy/

3. Confocal laser microscopic imaging.mp.

4. pancreas cyst/

5. pancreas cancer/

6. 2 or 3

7. 5 or 6

8. 6 and 7

9. 1 or 8

10. limit 9 to (human and english language and yr="2006 -Current")

For the economic evidence

Embase 1974 to 2016 March 02, Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to Present; Searched on March 02, 2016

1. Cellvizio.mp.

2. confocal laser microscopy.mp.

3. Confocal laser endomicroscopy.mp.

4. 2 or 3

5. Confocal laser microscopic imaging.mp.

6. Pancreatic Cyst.mp. [mp=ti, ab, hw, tn, ot, dm, mf, dv, kw, nm, kf, px, rx, an, ui]

7. Pancreatic Neoplasms/ or pancreatic cancer.mp.

8. 4 or 5

9. 6 or 7

10. 8 and 9

11. 1 or 10

12. limit 11 to english language

13. limit 12 to human

14. limit 13 to yr="2006 -Current"

15. (cost* or economic*).mp. [mp=ti, ab, hw, tn, ot, dm, mf, dv, kw, nm, kf, px, rx, an, ui]

16. 14 and 15

17. remove duplicates from 16

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Issue 3 of 12, March 2016

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect: Issue 2 of 4, April 2015

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials: Issue 2 of 12, February 2016

Health Technology Assessment Database: Issue 1 of 4, January 2016

NHS Economic Evaluation Database: Issue 2 of 4, April 2015

Evidence selection

For the clinical evidence

  • Total number of publications reviewed: 64

  • Total number of publications considered relevant: 27

  • Total number of publications selected for inclusion in this briefing: 5

For the economic evidence

  • Total abstracts: 9

  • Duplicates: 0

  • Abstracts reviewed: 9

  • Full papers reviewed: 2

Exclusion criteria: case studies, editorials, letters, reviews, conference proceedings/abstracts, animal studies, non-English language studies, studies not using Cellvizio

Studies for review: 0