Quality Improvement Project of Improving Workplace Safety While Caring for Behavioral Health Patients in Non-Psych Units Search Strategy

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this quality improvement project, the review team worked with a medical librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The medical librarian (TN) 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 (VN) following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), CINAHL (EbscoHost), PsycInfo (EbscoHost), and Cochrane Central (Wiley) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov) and WHO ICTRP (https://trialsearch.who.int/). There were no limits to the search. All final searches were performed on August 4, 2022 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). 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 8/4/2022 (315 Results) CINAHL (EbscoHost) from inception to 8/4/2022 (351 Results) PsycInfo (EbscoHost) from inception to 8/4/2022 (253 Results) Cochrane Central (Wiley) from inception to 8/4/2022 (56 Results)

The search resulted in 1,022 studies and 183 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian (TN) using the EndNote 20 duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 839 records to screen from databases or registers, resulting in a total of 839 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.