Medication Adherence in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Effect of Patient Education, Health Literacy, and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Table 2
Databases accessed displaying search terms employed, quantity of results, access limitation, reasons for exclusion, and accepted papers dealing with the effect of patient education and literacy on medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Database Search terms
Results
Reasons for exclusion
Accepted citations ref. number
PsycINFO via OvidSP host Rheuma* arthritis [or] Rheuma* disease [or] RA and Complian* [or] non?compli* [or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime* and Medic* [or] pharmac*
or drug or treatment or therapy or biologic or ?DMARD? or disease?modifying* and Patient education*
or intervention or strategy or knowledge or health liter* or understanding
20
, juvenile/paediatric population , review/qualitative/ book , not relevant
EBM Reviews, All-Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, and CCTR OvidSP host Rheuma* arthritis [or] RA [or] rheama* disease and Complian* [or] non?compli*[or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime and Medic*[or] pharmac* [or] drug or treatment or therapy or biologic or ?DMARD?
MedLine via OvidSP host Rheuma* arthritis [or] RA [or] rheama* disease and Complian*[or] non?compli*[or] adherence [or] non?adherence [or] refusal [or] regime and Medic* [or] pharmac* or drug or treatment or therapy or biologic or ?DMARD? and Medication
221
, already included , juvenile population , review/qualitative/ book , not relevant , female-only sample
The asterisk star is a wildcard search character. In this instance, it represents a string of characters, for example, the * matches zero or more characters, so rheum * will generate rheumatoid, rheumatology, rheumatic and so forth.