Research Article

Burden of Uterine Rupture and Its Determinant Factors in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Table 1

Shows examples of searching strategies for PubMed and Google Scholar databases to assess the prevalence, determinants, and adverse outcomes of uterine in Ethiopia.

DatabasesSearching termsNumber of studies

PubMed/MEDLINE(“epidemiology”[subheading] OR “epidemiology”[all fields] OR “incidence” [all fields] OR “incidence” [MeSH terms] OR “magnitude”[all fields] or “magnitude” [MeSH terms] OR “prevalence”[all fields] OR “prevalence”[MeSH terms]) AND (“associated factors”[all fields] OR “associated factors”[MeSH terms]) OR “determinant factors”[all fields] OR “determinant factors”[MeSH terms] AND (“uterine rupture”[MeSH terms] OR (“uterine”[all fields] AND “rupture”[all fields]) OR “uterine rupture”[all fields]) AND (“Ethiopia”[MeSH terms] OR “Ethiopia”[all fields])114
Google scholar“Prevalence” or “magnitude” or “incidence” and “associated factors” or “determinant factors” and “uterine rupture” or “ruptured uterus” and “Ethiopia”4
Other databases189
Gray literature (specifically unpublished theses report, doctoral theses, research reports, deposited papers, and call for papers)6
Total searched articles313
Finally, fulfill the eligibility criteria for our review15