Review Article

Chronic Widespread Pain and Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Life-Course Risk Markers in Young People

Table 1

Search strategy.

#SearchesResults

MEDLINEā€‰
1Exp chronic pain/9400
2Exp fibromyalgia/7898
31 or 216903
4Exp risk factors/730540
5Exp child/1810174
6Exp adolescent/1905521
7Exp young adult/646590
85 or 6 or 73134864
93 and 4 and 8240
10Limit 9 to English language230

EMBASEā€‰
1Exp chronic pain/48537
2Exp fibromyalgia/17126
31 or 262529
4Exp risk factor/837344
5Child/1681331
6Adolescent/1453055
7Exp young adult/200970
85 or 6 or 72611330
93 and 4 and 8255
10Limit 9 to English language245

Initial number of articles475
After excluding duplicate articles382
After excluding irrelevant articles106
Final number of articles106