Developmental Delay and Postoperative Outcomes in Otolaryngology Rapid Review Search Strategy

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this rapid review, 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 (JB) following the PRESS checklist. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM) and Cochrane Central (Wiley) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search was conducted in clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov). The search was limited to children only and no other limiters were used. All final searches were performed on July 6, 2023 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix (___).