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    Literature search strategy

    Databases

    Date searched

    Version/files

    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library)

    26/07/2021

    Issue 7 of 12, July 2021

    Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library)

    26/07/2021

    Issue 7 of 12, July 2021

    International HTA database

    26/07/2021

    -

    MEDLINE (Ovid)

    26/07/2021

    1946 To Aug 06, 2021

    MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) & MEDLINE ePubs ahead of print (Ovid)

    26/07/2021

    1946 to July 23, 2021

    EMBASE (Ovid)

    26/07/2021

    1974 to 2021 July 23

    Trial sources searched

    • Clinicaltrials.gov

    • ISRCTN

    • WHO International Clinical Trials Registry

    Websites searched

    • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    • NHS England

    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - MAUDE database

    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIP – S)

    • Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)

    • General internet search

    The following search strategy was used to identify papers in MEDLINE. A similar strategy was used to identify papers in other databases.

    Literature search strategy

    Number

    Search term

    1

    Scoliosis/

    2

    scolios*.tw.

    3

    (skelet* adj4 immatur*).tw.

    4

    or/1-3

    5

    (VBT or AVBT).tw.

    6

    Vertebral Body/

    7

    tether*.tw.

    8

    (verte* adj4 grow* adj4 modulat*).tw.

    9

    ((non-fusion or non fusion or nonfusion or fusionless*) adj4 spin*).tw.

    10

    dynesys*.tw.

    11

    globus*.tw.

    12

    zimmer biomet.tw.

    13

    APIFIX.tw.

    14

    or/5-13

    15

    4 and 14

    16

    Animals/ not Humans/

    17

    15 not 16

    18

    limit 17 to english language