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	[58]
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?	473	, already included; , not relevant	[75]
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	[28, 59]

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.