Vitamin D as an Adjunctive Treatment to Standard Drugs in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients: An Evidence-Based Case Report
Table 1
Search strategy applied in searching for evidence in the four electronic databases.
Database
Search Strategy
Hits
Selected Articles
PubMed NCBI
(“Tuberculosis”[Mesh]) AND “Vitamin D”[Mesh] AND (Sputum OR “Sputum Conversion Rate” OR SCR)
28
7
Medline OVID
1. TUBERCULOSIS/or Tuberculosis.mp. 2. Vitamin D/or Vitamin D.mp. 3. (“Sputum Conversion Rate” or Sputum or SCR).mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms] 4. 1 AND 2 AND 3
52
3
SCOPUS Elsevier
TITLE-ABS-KEY (Tuberculosis AND “Vitamin D” AND (Sputum OR “Sputum Conversion Rate” OR SCR))
108
1
Cochrane
(MeSH descriptor: [Tuberculosis]: explode all trees) AND (MeSH descriptor: [Vitamin D]: explode all trees) AND Sputum
