Review Article

Concentration-Response Relationship between PM2.5 and Daily Respiratory Deaths in China: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis of Time-Series Studies

Box 4

Global Health (Ovid).
Date of Search: 2016-09-16 Field labels:
Number of hits: 188 adj = within x words
exp = MeSH explode
.ti,ab. = title & abstract
(1) air pollutants.sh.
(2) exp air pollution/
(3) “pm2.5”.ti,ab.
(4) (pm adj2 “2.5”).ti,ab.
(5) ((air or atmospher) adj3 (pollut or quality or ambient)).ti,ab.
(6) (particulate matter or ambient particulate or ultrafine particulate or ultrafine particle or ufp or coarse particle
or dust or smog).ti,ab.
(7) or/(1)–(6)
(8) exp respiratory diseases/
(9) (respirat or asthm or pneumo or lung or pulmonar or bronch or pleur or trache).ti,ab.
(10) (8) or (9)
(11) exp mortality/
(12) (mortal or fatal or death or dead).ti,ab.
(13) or/(11)-(12)
(14) exp china/
(15) (china or chinese).ti,ab.
(16) (guangzhou or shanghai or chongqing or beijing or peking or hangzhou or wuhan or chengdu or
tianjin or xi’an or jinan or shenzhen or nanjing or shenyang or harbin or shantou or suzhou or
dongguan or wenzhou or qingdao or quanzhou).ti,ab.
(17) or/(14)–(16)
(18) (7) and (10) and (13) and (17)