Development and Evaluation of Evidence-Informed Clinical Nursing Protocols for Remote Assessment, Triage and Support of Cancer Treatment-Induced Symptoms

Table 2

Final search strategy of the electronic databases.

Database	Limits	Strategy neutropenia	Strategy for diarrhea
Ovid MEDLINE(R) (1996 to July week 1 2008)	2003–2008; English/French; humans	(1) exp. neoplasms/(811201); (2) Neutropenia/(6657); (3) Febrile neutropenia.ab,ti. (2107); (4) 1 and 2 or 3 (4892); (5) Limit 4 to humans and year = “2003–2008” and english or french and guideline or practice guideline (6)	(1) exp. neoplasms/(811201); (2) exp. diarrhea/(11983); (3) Diarrhea$.ab,ti. (18069); (4) Diarrhoea$.ab,ti. (7932); (5) 1 and 2 or 3 or 4 (4866); (6) Limit 4 to humans and year = “2003–2008” and english or french and guideline or practice guideline (5)
EMBASE (1996 to 2008 week 28)	2003–2008; English/French; humans	(1) exp. neoplasm/(877949); (2) Febrile neutropenia/(6834); (3) Febrile neutropenia.ab,ti. (2188); (4) 1 and 2 or 3 (6474); (5) exp * practice guideline/(9361); (6) 4 and 5 (14); (7) limit 6 to human and year = “2003–2008” and english or french (12)	(1) exp. neoplasm/(876520); (2) exp. diarrhea/(57553); (3) Diarrhea$.ab,ti. (17055); (4) Diarrhoea$.ab,ti. (7543); (5) 1 and 2 or 3 or 4 (18526); (6) exp * practice guideline/(9335); (7) 5 and 6 (18); (8) Limit 7 to human and year = “2003–2008” and english or french (17)
CINAHL—cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature; (1982 to July week 1 2008)	2003–2008; English/French	(1) exp. neoplasms/(89596); (2) Neutropenia/(816); (3) Febrile neutropenia.ab,ti. (206); (4) 1 and (2 or 3) (399); (5) Limit 4 to year = “2003–2008” and english or french and practice; guidelines (7)	(1) exp. neoplasms/(89596); (2) Diarrhea/(2449); (3) Diarrhea$.ab,ti. (2165); (4) Diarrhoea$.ab,ti. (705); (5) 1 and 2 or 3 or 4 (475); (6) Limit 5 to year = “2003–2008” and english or french and practice; guidelines (0)
PsycINFO; (2000 to July week 1 2008)		(1) exp. neoplasms/(10572); (2) Febrile neutropenia.ab,ti. (4); (3) 1 and 2 (0)	(1) exp. neoplasms/(10572); (2) Diarrhea/(147); (3) Diarrhea$.mp. (674); (4) Diarrhoea$.mp. (137); (5) 2 or 3 or 4 (768); (6) 1 and 5 (34); (7) treatment guidelines/(1947); (8) 6 and 7 (0)