Healthcare for Sex Workers Rapid Review Search Strategy

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this rapid review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (SR) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The searches were conducted following the PRISMA-S extension for search reporting. The medical librarian (SR) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, the librarian reviewed all the completed search strategies for errors. The United States search hedge used in this search was borrowed from the MLA Latinx Search Hedge (1). The MLA Latinx Search Hedge is a peer-reviewed search strategy. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Cochrane Central (Wiley) and PsycInfo (EbscoHost) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov), Epistemonikos (epistemonikos.org) and the Trip medical database (tripdatabase.com). The search was limited to publications from 2010 to 2021. (note to authors: provide justification for date limitation) All final searches were performed on December 17, 2021 by the librarian and were fully reported (SR). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix.