Literature search strategy

Databases	Date searched	Version/files
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library)	20/08/2021	Issue 8 August 2021
Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library)	20/08/2021	Issue 8 August 2021
International HTA database	20/08/2021	n/a
MEDLINE (Ovid)	20/08/2021	1946 to August 19
MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) &	20/08/2021	1946 to August 19
MEDLINE ePubs ahead of print (Ovid)	20/08/2021	August 19 2021
EMBASE (Ovid)	20/08/2021	1974 to 2021 August 19

Trial sources searched

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.

1 exp Catheters/ 32375

2 ((catheter* or drain* or tube* or cannula*) adj4 ("long term" or long-term or permanent or indwell* or tunnel* or abdom*)).tw. 20844

3 (PIPC or LTAD).tw. 332

4 or/1-3 48560

5 exp Ascites/ 16939

6 ascit*.tw. 43470

7 5 or 6 47466

8 4 and 7 540

9 exp Liver Cirrhosis/ 93679

10 (Cirrhot* or Cirrhos* or (liver adj4 fibrosis)).tw. 105796

11 exp End Stage Liver Disease/ 3476

12 ((liver adj4 (disease or failure)) or ESLD).tw. 99183

13 or/9-12 201161

14 8 and 13 100

15 (PleurX or Tenckhoff or Celsite or drainaport*).tw. 678

16 7 and 15 40

17 14 or 16 135

18 Animals/ not Humans/ 4842959

19 17 not 18 133

Interventional procedure overview of tunnelled peritoneal drainage catheter insertion of refractory ascites in cirrhosis