Search strategies for the systematic review forming part of the HTA "Self-sampling kits to increase HIV testing among black Africans in the UK: the HAUS mixed-methods study Introduction The following search strategies are displayed as entered into each database. Therefore, each line can be copied into the appropriate database to replicate the results if required. The search was constructed and tested in the OvidSP Medline database. This search was then edited to take account in differences of syntax and controlled vocabulary before being run in subsequent databases. The search was run in the following databases: OvidSP Medline; OvidSP Embase, OvidSP Global Health; OvidSP Social Policy & Practice; OvidSP PsycINFO; OvidSP Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC); Ebsco CINAHL Plus; Cochrane Library; Web of Science Core Collection; Scopus. In all searches, numbers in brackets after each line are the number of items retrieved. Results from each search are deduplicated against all previous searches. This is done by EndNote and manually, therefore, there may be some duplicates remaining in the EndNote file. Search strategies All searches run on 26 September 2014 OvidSP MEDLINE Date range: 1946 to September Week 3 2014 1 exp HIV Infections/ (238345) 2 exp HIV/ (86013) 3 hiv.ti,ab. (225871) 4 “hiv1".ti,ab. (710) 5 "hiv2".ti,ab. (149) 6 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (3784) 7 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (186) 8 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (69068) 9 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (4) 10 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (186) 11 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (245) 12 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (435) 13 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (14483) 14 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (10) 15 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (94) 16 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (4904) 17 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (5037) 18 Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral/ (1207) 19 or/1-18 (313426) 20 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (5944) 21 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (0) 22 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (3862) 23 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (270) 24 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (10969) 25 or/20-24 (20907) 26 19 and 25 (1003) 27 limit 26 to (english language and yr="2000 -Current") (673) After deduplication, 607 references were added to the EndNote file. OvidSP Embase Classic+Embase Date range:1947 to 2014 September 25 1 exp Human immunodeficiency virus/ (136959) 2 exp Human immunodeficiency virus infection/ (302395) 3 hiv.ti,ab. (270848) 4 "hiv1".ti,ab. (1096) 5 "hiv2".ti,ab. (215) 6 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (3695) 7 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (182) 8 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (73899) 9 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (21) 10 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (230) 11 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (319) 12 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (555) 13 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (15077) 14 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (21) 15 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (110) 16 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (5294) 17 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (5432) 18 or/1-17 (402756) 19 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (8763) 20 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (0) 21 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (5139) 22 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (389) 23 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (15201) 24 or/19-23 (29297) 25 18 and 24 (1324) 26 limit 25 to (english language and yr="2000 -Current") (1005) After deduplication, 368 references were added to the EndNote file. OvidSP Global Health Date range: 1910 to 2014 Week 38 1 exp human immunodeficiency viruses/ (135761) 2 hiv.ti,ab. (112626) 3 "hiv1".ti,ab. (217) 4 "hiv2".ti,ab. (34) 5 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (2086) 6 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (98) 7 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (33387) 8 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (2) 9 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (54) 10 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (106) 11 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (159) 12 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (4301) 13 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (4) 14 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (24) 15 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (3198) 16 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (3228) 17 or/1-16 (145993) 18 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (1858) 19 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (1) 20 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (716) 21 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (62) 22 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (3050) 23 or/18-22 (5608) 24 17 and 23 (577) 25 limit 24 to (english language and yr="2000 -Current") (476) After deduplication, 49 references were added to the EndNote file. 2.4 OvidSP Social Policy and Practice Date: 201407 1 hiv.ti,ab. (3986) 2 "hiv1".ti,ab. (2) 3 "hiv2".ti,ab. (0) 4 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (1) 5 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (0) 6 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (65) 7 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (0) 8 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (4) 9 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (2) 10 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (6) 11 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (17) 12 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (0) 13 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (0) 14 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (19) 15 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (19) 16 or/1-15 (4006) 17 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (6) 18 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (0) 19 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (24) 20 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (4) 21 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (409) 22 or/17-21 (441) 23 16 and 22 (10) 24 limit 23 to yr="2000 -Current" (7) After deduplication, 2 references were added to the EndNote file. OvidSP PsycINFO Date range: 1806 to September Week 4 2014 1 HIV testing/ (1545) 2 exp HIV/ (32530) 3 hiv.ti,ab. (37057) 4 "hiv1".ti,ab. (18) 5 "hiv2".ti,ab. (5) 6 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (55) 7 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (1) 8 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (4512) 9 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (1) 10 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (11) 11 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (23) 12 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (35) 13 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (610) 14 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (0) 15 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (4) 16 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (2824) 17 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (2831) 18 or/1-17 (41636) 19 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (349) 20 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (0) 21 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (1747) 22 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (85) 23 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (8745) 24 or/19-23 (10893) 25 18 and 24 (316) 26 limit 25 to (english language and yr="2000 -Current") (251) After deduplication, 58 references were added to the EndNote file. Database: Ovid SP HMIC Health Management Information Consortium Date range:1979 to July 2014 1 hiv tests/ (101) 2 HIV/ (3421) 3 acquired immune deficiency syndrome/ (3169) 4 hiv.ti,ab. (4212) 5 "hiv1".ti,ab. (2) 6 "hiv2".ti,ab. (0) 7 "hiv type 1".ti,ab. (0) 8 "hiv type 2".ti,ab. (0) 9 human immunodeficiency virus.ti,ab. (601) 10 human immunedeficiency virus.ti,ab. (0) 11 human immuno-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (4) 12 human immune-deficiency virus.ti,ab. (24) 13 (human immun* adj3 deficiency virus).ti,ab. (28) 14 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (114) 15 acquired immunedeficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (0) 16 acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (1) 17 acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.ti,ab. (181) 18 (acquired immun* adj3 deficiency syndrome).ti,ab. (182) 19 or/1-18 (5924) 20 (sample adj1 collect*).ti,ab. (12) 21 home dried blood spot.ti,ab. (0) 22 (alternative adj3 test*).ti,ab. (40) 23 (option* adj1 test*).ti,ab. (9) 24 ((Home* or self* or mail*) adj3 (collection* or sampl* or specimen* or test* or kit)).ti,ab. (357) 25 or/20-24 (418) 26 19 and 25 (15) 27 limit 26 to yr="2000 -Current" (10) After deduplication, 2 references were added to the EndNote file. EBSCO CINAHL Plus with Full Text S1 (MH "HIV Infections+") (60,084) S2 (MH "Human Immunodeficiency Virus+") (5,634) S3 (TI hiv) OR (AB hiv) (50,539) S4 (TI hiv1) OR (AB hiv1) (3,120) S5 (TI hiv2) or (AB hiv2) (131) S6 (TI hiv type 1) or (AB hiv type 1) (129) S7 (TI hiv type 2) or (AB hiv type 2) (8) S8 (TI human immunodeficiency virus) or (AB human immunodeficiency virus) (7,126) S9 (TI human immunedeficiency virus) OR (AB human immunedeficiency virus) (0) S10 (TI human immuno-deficiency virus) or (AB human immuno-deficiency virus) (16) S11 (TI human immune-deficiency virus) OR (AB human immune-deficiency virus) (23) S12 human immun* N3 deficiency virus (39) S13 (TI acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) or (AB acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) (1,290) S14 (TI acquired immunedeficiency syndrome) or (AB acquired immunedeficiency syndrome) (1) S15 (TI acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome) OR (AB acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome) (8) S16 (TI acquired immune-deficiency syndrome) or (AB acquired immune-deficiency syndrome) (586) S17 acquired immun* N3 deficiency syndrome (596) S18 S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4 OR S5 OR S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9 OR S10 OR S11 OR S12 OR S13 OR S14 OR S15 OR S16 OR S17 (73,536) S19 (MH "Home Diagnostic Tests") (458) S20 sample N1 collect* (713) S21 (TI home dried blood spot) or (AB home dried blood spot) (0) S22 alternative N3 test* (549) S23 option* N1 test* (135) S24 (home* N3 collection*) OR (home* N3 sampl*) or (home* N3 specimen*) or (home* N3 test*) or (home* N3 kit) or (self* N3 collection*) or (self* N3 sampl*) or (self* N3 specimen*) or (self* N3 test*) or (self* N3 kit) or (mail* N3 collection*) or (mail* N3 sampl*) or (mail* N3 specimen*) or (mail* N3 test*) or (mail* N3 kit) (6,246) S25 S19 OR S20 OR S21 OR S22 OR S23 OR S24 (7,581) S26 S18 AND S25 (434) S27 S26 Limiters - Published Date: 20000101-20141231; English Language (345) After deduplication, 135 references were added to the EndNote file. Cochrane Library #1. MeSH descriptor: [HIV Infections] explode all trees (8016) #2. MeSH descriptor: [HIV] explode all trees (2607) #3. hiv:ti,ab,kw (11139) #4. "HIV1":ti,ab,kw (10) #5. "HIV2":ti,ab,kw (0) #6. "hiv type 1":ti,ab,kw (176) #7. "hiv type 2":ti,ab,kw (0) #8. "human immunodeficiency virus":ti,ab,kw (3510) #9. "human immunedeficiency virus":ti,ab,kw (0) #10. "human immuno-deficiency virus":ti,ab,kw (6) #11. "human immune-deficiency virus":ti,ab,kw (3) #12. "human immun*" near/3 "deficiency virus":ti,ab,kw (9) #13. "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome":ti,ab,kw (1438) #14. "acquired immunedeficiency syndrome":ti,ab,kw (1) #15. "acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome":ti,ab,kw (2) #16. "acquired immune-deficiency syndrome":ti,ab,kw (271) #17. "acquired immun*" near/3 "deficiency syndrome":ti,ab,kw (275) #18. MeSH descriptor: [Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral] explode all trees (8143) #19. #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 (12501) #20. sample near/1 collect*:ti,ab,kw (1151) #21. "home dried blood spot":ti,ab,kw (0) #22. alternative near/3 test*:ti,ab,kw (298) #23. option* near/1 test*:ti,ab,kw (27) #24. (home* near/3 collection*) or (home* near/3 sampl*) or (home* near/3 specimen*) or (home* near/3 test*) or (home* near/3 kit) or (self* near/3 collection*) or (self* near/3 sampl*) or (self* near/3 specimen*) or (self* near/3 test*) or (self* near/3 kit) or (mail* near/3 collection*) or (mail* near/3 sampl*) or (mail* near/3 specimen*) or (mail* near/3 test*) or (mail* near/3 kit):ti,ab,kw (2045) #25. #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 or #24 (3444) #26. #19 and #25 (179) This breaks down as: * Cochrane Reviews (31) * Other Reviews (5) * Trials (131) * Methods Studies (6) * Technology Assessments (0) * Economic Evaluations (6) * Cochrane Groups (0) After deduplication, 111 references were added to the EndNote file. Web of Science™ Core Collection #1. TOPIC: (hiv) (263,299) #2. TOPIC: (hiv1) (708) #3. TOPIC: (hiv2) (118) #4. TOPIC: ("hiv type 1") (3,896) #5. TOPIC: ("hiv type 2") (175) #6. TOPIC: ("human immunodeficiency virus") (101,350) #7. TOPIC: ("human immunedeficiency virus") (11) #8. TOPIC: ("human immuno-deficiency virus") (175) #9. TOPIC: ("human immune-deficiency virus") (222) #10. TOPIC: ("human immun*" NEAR/3 "deficiency virus") (404) #11. TOPIC: ("acquired immunodeficiency syndrome") (21,385) #12. TOPIC: ("acquired immunedeficiency syndrome") (6) #13. TOPIC: ("acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome") (67) #14. TOPIC: ("acquired immune-deficiency syndrome") (4,047) #15. #14 OR #13 OR #12 OR #11 OR #10 OR #9 OR #8 OR #7 OR #6 OR #5 OR #4 OR #3 OR #2 OR #1 (298,257) #16. TOPIC: (sample NEAR/1 collect*) (114,546) #17. TOPIC: ("home dried blood spot") (0) #18. TOPIC: (alternative NEAR/3 test*) (11,852) #19. TOPIC: (option* NEAR/1 test*) (897) #20. TOPIC: (home* NEAR/3 collection*) (420) #21. TOPIC: (home* NEAR/3 sampl*) (2,818) #22. TOPIC: (home* NEAR/3 specimen*) (106) #23. TOPIC: (home* NEAR/3 test*) (3,576) #24. TOPIC: (home* NEAR/3 kit) (269) #25. TOPIC: (self* NEAR/3 collection*) (712) #26. TOPIC: (self* NEAR/3 sampl*) (4,438) #27. TOPIC: (self* NEAR/3 specimen*) (495) #28. TOPIC: (self* NEAR/3 test*) (13,450) #29. TOPIC: (self* NEAR/3 kit) (224) #30. TOPIC: (mail* NEAR/3 collection*) (174) #31. TOPIC: (mail* NEAR/3 sampl*) (1,080) #32. TOPIC: (mail* NEAR/3 specimen*) (71) #33. TOPIC: (mail* NEAR/3 test*) (362) #34. TOPIC: (mail* NEAR/3 kit) (86) #35. #34 OR #33 OR #32 OR #31 OR #30 OR #29 OR #28 OR #27 OR #26 OR #25 OR #24 OR #23 OR #22 OR #21 OR #20 OR #19 OR #18 OR #17 OR #16 (153,447) #36. #15 AND #35 (3,000) #37. #15 AND #35 Refined by: LANGUAGES: ( ENGLISH ) AND PUBLICATION YEARS: ( 2013 OR 2007 OR 2012 OR 2006 OR 2003 OR 2011 OR 2005 OR 2014 OR 2004 OR 2000 OR 2010 OR 2002 OR 2009 OR 2008 OR 2001 ) (2,360) After deduplication, 1586 references were added to the EndNote file. SCOPUS ( ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( hiv ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "hiv1" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "hiv2" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "hiv type 1" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "hiv type 2" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "human immunodeficiency virus" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "human immunedeficiency virus" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "human immuno-deficiency virus" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "human immune-deficiency virus" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "human immun*" W/3 "deficiency virus" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "acquired immunedeficiency syndrome" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "acquired immune-deficiency syndrome" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "acquired immun*" W/3 "deficiency syndrome" ) ) ) AND ( ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( sample W/1 collect* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "home dried blood spot" ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( alternative W/3 test* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( option W/1 test* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( home* W/3 collection* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( home* W/3 sampl* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( home* W/3 specimen* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( home* W/3 test* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( home* W/3 kit ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( self* W/3 collection* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( self* W/3 sampl* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( self* W/3 specimen* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( self* W/3 test* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( self* W/3 kit ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( mail* W/3 collection* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( mail* W/3 sampl* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( mail* W/3 specimen* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( mail* W/3 test* ) ) OR ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( mail* W/3 kit ) ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2014 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2013 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2012 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2011 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2010 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2009 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2008 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2007 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2006 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2005 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2004 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2003 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2002 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2001 ) OR LIMIT-TO ( PUBYEAR , 2000 ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE , "English" ) ) (2,864) After deduplication, 672 references were added to the EndNote file.