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The Markdown-formatted text file README.md is the authoritative version of the documentation. The HTML-file README.html was generated from that file as a convenience.
This is the single search documentation for a systematic review project that was later split for separate analyses of the interventions. The corresponding protocols:
Maximilian Kerschbaum, Elena Ricker, Helge Knüttel. Surgery vs. non-surgical therapy for partial tears of the rotator cuff: protocol for a systematic review and meta- analysis. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023487714. Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023487714
Maximilian Kerschbaum, Elena Ricker, Helge Knüttel. Addendum: Non-surgical therapy for partial tears of the rotator cuff: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO 2024 CRD42024588706. Available from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD42024588706
This report follows the PRISMA-S Recommendations (Rethlefsen ML, Kirtley S, Waffenschmidt S, Ayala AP, Moher D, Page MJ, Koffel JB; PRISMA-S Group. PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA statement for reporting literature searches in systematic reviews. J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Apr 1;109(2):174-200. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.962. PMID: 34285662; PMCID: PMC8270366.). A PRISMA-S Checklist is attached and is part of this documentation.
Searches were run in the following databases:
Searching in Conditons or disease of the Simple search form/Advanced search
form is equal to searching with
AREA[ConditionSearch](<search terms>) in the Expert
search.
Not applicable.
Search strategy as copied from webpage with search results:
1334 Studies found for: AREA[ConditionMeshTerm]( “shoulder impingement syndrome” ) OR AREA[ConditionMeshTerm]( “rotator cuff injuries” ) OR AREA[ConditionSearch]( ( “rotator cuff” OR supraspinatus OR infraspinatus OR subscapular OR teres OR ((shoulder OR subacromial) AND (tendon OR tendinopathy OR tendinitis OR impingement OR tear OR tears OR rupture OR ruptures OR lesion OR lesions OR injury OR injuries OR injured)) OR “glenoid labral tear” OR “glenoid labral tears” ) )
Search string as entered:
AREA[ConditionMeshTerm]( "shoulder impingement syndrome" ) OR
AREA[ConditionMeshTerm]( "rotator cuff injuries" ) OR
AREA[ConditionSearch]( (
"rotator cuff" OR supraspinatus OR infraspinatus OR subscapular OR teres OR
((shoulder OR subacromial) AND (tendon OR tendinopathy OR tendinitis OR impingement OR tear OR tears OR rupture OR ruptures OR lesion OR lesions OR injury OR injuries OR injured)) OR
"glenoid labral tear" OR "glenoid labral tears"
) )1986 records for 1972 trials found for: shoulder impingement syndrome OR rotator cuff OR supraspinatus OR infraspinatus OR subscapular OR teres OR ((shoulder OR subacromial) AND (tendon OR tendinopathy OR tendinitis OR impingement OR tear OR rupture OR lesion OR injury)) OR glenoid labral tearRecords were imported into Endnote (version 20.6) for partial deduplication with the method of Bramer et al.1 (semiautomatic steps A-C) and by database accession numbers. The remaining records were exported into text files in Endnote XML format for import into Covidence software 2 for screening. Covidence identified additional records as duplicates.
This report follows the TARCiS Recommendations (Hirt J, Nordhausen T, Fuerst T, Ewald H, Appenzeller-Herzog C; TARCiS study group. Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS statement. BMJ. 2024 May 9;385:e078384. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-078384. PMID: 38724089.). A TARCiS Checklist is attached and part of this documentation.
Seed references: The 36 included reports identified in the preceding database searches: file in RIS format
For 36 references a DOI was found.
In the export file from Covidence accession numbers from various data sources were contained in the AN field. So we did not extract the PMIDs to a text file but worked with DOIs only.
Extract the DOIs to a text file:
cat review_393059_included_endnote_20240725001525.ris | grep "^DO - " | sed -e 's/^DO - //' -e 's/\s*$//' -e '/^\s*$/ d' > doi.txt
wc -l doi.txt31 doi.txtThe following reference(s) had no PMID and/or DOI. They were found in Lens.org by searching with bibliographic data and can be located there with the accession numbers. The accession numbers were saved to the file lens_id.txt:
The following report(s) had no PMID and/or DOI. They were not found in Lens.org by searching with bibliographic data. For these reports Reference List Checking was done instead of using citationchaser:
For all references found in Lens.org backward citation searching was carried out with the citationchaser Shiny app (Haddaway, N. R., Grainger, M. J., Gray, C. T. (2021) citationchaser: An R package and Shiny app for forward and backward citations chasing in academic searching. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4543513, available from https://estech.shinyapps.io/citationchaser/).
The identifiers from the following files were entered as Seed References in citationchaser:
Result of loading these identifiers into citationchaser:
You provided 31 potential starting identifiers, corresponding to 31 unique records. We found 31 of them on Lens.org:
Note: The term “unique records” reported by citationchaser is misleading at this point, as the list of records is clearly not deduplicated at this stage!
The records found for the identifiers were downloaded in RIS format: input-articles_2024-08-06.ris
Number of records in the RIS file:
grep "^ER -" input-articles_2024-08-06.ris | wc -l31citationchaser reported:
Your 31 articles contained a total of 1,060 references. Your RIS file is ready for download and contains 108 records exported from Lens.org.
The total number of references was reported in the right column box of the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram.
The unique records were downloaded:
Number of records contained in the RIS file:
grep "^ER -" references_2024-08-06.ris | wc -l108This RIS file was uploaded into Covidence (source designation: citation search) for screening.
Covidence automatically removed duplicates of records known from the preceding database searches.
89 records remained to be screened in Covidence. This was reported in the right column box of the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram.
citationchaser automatically deduplicated the references found from the seed articles, see above. Covidence automatically deduplicated the records imported against the records from the previous database searches, see above.
Records identified with citationchaser were screened in Covidence in the same manner as the records identified from the preceding database searches.
citationchaser does not report about records found in Lens.org that do not have data about cited references. For these records some other means for backwards citation searching has to be chosen.
The seed references were searched in the Lens.org web interface.
Creation of the search string:
cat doi.txt | an2query --syntax lens --idtype doi | xclipSearch string used in the section “Scholarly Works”:
ids.doi:("10.3233/bmr-181306" OR "10.1249/mss.0000000000001781" OR "10.1016/j.jse.2018.11.051" OR "10.1186/s13018-020-01631-8" OR "10.1177/2309499018770897" OR "10.1038/s41598-023-46653-4" OR "10.1007/s00590-016-1826-3" OR "10.1007/s00402-020-03387-6" OR "10.1007/s00167-013-2536-6" OR "10.1016/j.arthro.2015.05.016" OR "10.5812/ircmj.23732" OR "10.1186/s13018-017-0693-x" OR "10.1177/0363546518757425" OR "10.1177/0363546519873840" OR "10.1177/2325967120904012" OR "10.1016/j.jht.2019.08.004" OR "10.1155/2020/5962354" OR "10.1016/j.arthro.2020.10.037" OR "10.1016/j.jcot.2020.07.031" OR "10.1590/1806-9282.67.02.20200730" OR "10.1177/23259671211024937" OR "10.1080/08990220.2021.2005015" OR "10.1038/s41598-021-04656-z" OR "10.1155/2020/6501714" OR "10.1186/s12891-022-06089-9" OR "10.1186/s40798-023-00556-w" OR "10.1007/s00590-013-1263-5" OR "10.1016/j.jse.2009.08.006" OR "10.1016/j.arthro.2011.07.005" OR "10.1007/s00264-013-1882-9" OR "10.4103/2277-9175.122517") The list of results in Lens.org was checked manually. The following records had no reference lists in lens.org, i.e. they had a statement “Reference Count: 0”:
For these records the reference lists in the fulltext reports were checked manually.
By citation searching, after deduplication and screening, no (0) additional eligible references were identified. This was reported in the right column box of the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram .
Bramer WM, Giustini D, Jonge GB de, Holland L, Bekhuis T. De-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote. J Med Libr Assoc 2016;104(3):2403. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.104.3.014. PubMed PMID: 27366130.↩︎
Covidence systematic review software, Veritas Health Innovation, Melbourne, Australia. 2024. Available at https://www.covidence.org.↩︎