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Table 1 Search strategy used in PubMed database

From: Effectiveness and safety of tenosynovitis of the long head of the biceps brachii with acupuncture: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

No.

Search items

#1

Randomized controlled trial [pt]

#2

Controlled clinical trial [pt]

#3

Randomized [tiab]

#4

Placebo [tiab]

#5

Clinical trials [MeSH]

#6

Randomly [tiab]

#7

Trial [ti]

#8

#1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7

#9

Humans [MeSH]

#10

#8 AND #9

#11

Tenosynovitis of long head of biceps or tenosynovitis of LHB [MeSH]

#12

Tenosynovitis of biceps or tenosynovitis [ti, ab]

#13

Tendinitis of long head of biceps or tendinitis of LHB [MeSH]

#14

Tendinitis of biceps or tendinitis [ti, ab]

#15

#11 OR #12 OR #13 OR #14

#16

Acupuncture therapy OR electroacupuncture therapy [MeSH]

#17

(Acupuncture OR electroacupuncture OR electro-acupuncture OR manual acupuncture OR auricular acupuncture OR warm needling) [ti, ab]

#18

#16 OR #17

#19

#10 AND #15 AND #18