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Table 1 Search strategy.

From: Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools

Keywords used: (Pain) AND (Scale OR assessment OR measure) AND (Elderly OR residents ORgeriatric OR nursing homes OR cognitive impairment OR dementia OR Alzheimer)

Source

Hits (N =)

Selection based on reading abstracts (N =)

Final selection based on publications (N =)

Databases

Psychinfo 191

29

31

 

Medline 977

70*

 
 

CINAHL*** 219

17**

 

Abstracts

8

5

5

Citation/reference screening

37

17

15

Unpublished manuscripts

6

3

3

Total

 

141

54

  1. * N = 19/70 overlapping with the Psychinfo search
  2. ** N = 15/17 overlapping with the Psychinfo and Medline searches
  3. *** Because of the large number of publications found using CINAHL, our search of this database was limited by using the keyword 'nursing'
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BMC Geriatrics

ISSN: 1471-2318

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