Immigrants Pharmacy Scoping Review Search Strategy

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this scoping review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (SR) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed 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, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another medical librarian (TN) following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), Embase (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Cochrane Central (Wiley) and CINAHL (EbscoHost) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov), the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com) and the OAIster websites (https://oaister.on.worldcat.org/discovery). The search was limited from the year 2000 to present. All final searches were performed on June 14, 2022 by the librarian and were fully reported (SR). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix(___).

A summary of the search results from databases: PubMed (NLM) from inception to 6/14/2022 (483 Results) Embase (Elsevier) from inception to 6/14/2022 (902 Results) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) from inception to 6/14/2022 (572 Results) Cochrane Central (Wiley) from inception to 6/14/2022 (81 Results) CINAHL (EbscoHost) from inception to 6/14/2022 (255 Results)

The search resulted in 2,360 studies and 749 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian (SR) using the EndNote 20 duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 1,545 records to screen from databases or registers and 66 records to screen from other methods, resulting in a total of 1,611 records. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.