Psychometric Properties of Questionnaires on Functional Health Status in Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Systematic Literature Review
Table 1
Functional health status questionnaires in oropharyngeal dysphagia: search strategy.
Literature database
Search terms
Limits
Number of abstracts identified ()
Mesh or thesaurus terms
Pubmed
(“Questionnaires”[Mesh] or “Health Status”[Mesh] or “Severity of Illness Index”[Mesh:NoExp]) and (“deglutition disorders”[Mesh:NoExp] or “Deglutition”[Mesh])
N.A.
1218
Embase
(exp QUESTIONNAIRE/) and (exp DYSPHAGIA/or exp swallowing)
N.A.
1196
Free text words1 (truncation or wild card)
Pubmed
(questionnaire*[all fields] or “functional health status"[all fields]) and (“deglutition”[All Fields] or “deglutition disorders"[All Fields] or “deglutition disorder“[All Fields] or (“oropharyngeal"[All Fields] and “dysphagia"[All Fields]) or “oropharyngeal dysphagia"[All Fields] or swallow* or ((dysphag*) and (oropharynx or oropharyng*)))
From 5-6-2012 to 5-6-2013
195
Embase
(questionnaire*[all fields] or “functional health status"[all fields]) and (“deglutition"[All Fields] or “deglutition disorders"[All Fields] or “deglutition disorder"[All Fields] or (“oropharyngeal"[All Fields] and “dysphagia"[All Fields]) or “oropharyngeal dysphagia"[All Fields] or swallow* or ((dysphag*) and (oropharynx or oropharyng*)))
From 2012 to current
94
Similar free text words were used for both Pubmed and Endbase.