Table 4: Search for additional RCTs Search Benefit and harms of mammography
screening (40-49 y) questions Note Specific search for RCT’s
Date 27/04/2010 Keywords Breast neoplasms (MESH), mass screening (or early detection) (MESH), mammography (MESH) Medline 1 Randomized controlled trials/ (66083) Medline (OVID): (OVID): 2 Randomized controlled trial.pt (289038) Filter Filter 3 Random allocation/ (67885) RCT RCT 4 Double blind method/ (105956) 5 Single blind method/ (13834) 6 Clinical trial.pt (460563) 7 exp clinical trial/ (606505) 8 or/1-7 (718664) 9 (clinic$ adj trial$).tw
...[+++](146686) 10 ((singl$ or doubl$ or treb$ or tripl$) adj (blind$3 or mask$3)).tw (105209) 11 Placebos/ (28712) 12 Placebo$.tw (125428) 13 Randomly allocated.tw (12231) 14 (allocated adj2 random).tw (654) 15 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 (312732) 16 8 or 15 (842155) 17 Case report.tw (155883) 18 Letter.pt (688664) 19 Historical article.pt (263287) 20 Review of reported cases.pt (0) 21 Review,multicase.pt (0) 22 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 (1098644) 23 16 not 22 (822810) 24 Breast/ or Breast Diseases/ (30717) 25 Neoplasms/ (216644) 26 24 and 25 (535) 27 (breast$ adj5 neoplasm$).tw (1588) 28 (breast$ adj5 cancer$).tw (135654) 29 (breast$ adj5 carcin$).tw (31778) 30 (breast$ adj5 tumo$).tw (23438) 31 (breast$ adj5 metasta$).tw (16580) 32 (breast$ adj5 malig$).tw (7361) 33 exp Breast Neoplasms/ (171606) 34 exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/ (8460) 35 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32 or 33 or 34 (207174) 36 mammography.mp (23598) 37 screening.mp (274211) 38 36 or 37 (288429) 39 23 and 35 and 38 (2326) 40 limit 39 to (yr=" 2008 -Current" and " all adult (19 plus years)" and (dutch or english or french)) (241) 41 from 40 keep 1-241 (241) 42 from 41 keep 1-241 (241) CENTRAL Breast neoplasms (MESH) and early detection (MESH) or 61 mammography (MESH) (manual limit 2008-2010) in title , abstracts or key wordsTable 2: Search for additional RCTs Search Benefit and harms of mammography
screening (40-49 y) questions Note Specific search for RCT’s
Date 27/04/2010 Keywords Breast neoplasms (MESH), mass screening (or early detection) (MESH), mammography (MESH) Medline 1 Randomized controlled trials/ (66083) Medline (OVID): (OVID): 2 Randomized controlled trial.pt (289038) Filter Filter 3 Random allocation/ (67885) RCT RCT 4 Double blind method/ (105956) 5 Single blind method/ (13834) 6 Clinical trial.pt (460563) 7 exp clinical trial/ (606505) 8 or/1-7 (718664) 9 (clinic$ adj trial$).tw
...[+++](146686) 10 ((singl$ or doubl$ or treb$ or tripl$) adj (blind$3 or mask$3)).tw (105209) 11 Placebos/ (28712) 12 Placebo$.tw (125428) 13 Randomly allocated.tw (12231) 14 (allocated adj2 random).tw (654) 15 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 (312732) 16 8 or 15 (842155) 17 Case report.tw (155883) 18 Letter.pt (688664) 19 Historical article.pt (263287) 20 Review of reported cases.pt (0) 21 Review,multicase.pt (0) 22 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 (1098644) 23 16 not 22 (822810) 24 Breast/ or Breast Diseases/ (30717) 25 Neoplasms/ (216644) 26 24 and 25 (535) 27 (breast$ adj5 neoplasm$).tw (1588) 28 (breast$ adj5 cancer$).tw (135654) 29 (breast$ adj5 carcin$).tw (31778) 30 (breast$ adj5 tumo$).tw (23438) 31 (breast$ adj5 metasta$).tw (16580) 32 (breast$ adj5 malig$).tw (7361) 33 exp Breast Neoplasms/ (171606) 34 exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/ (8460) 35 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32 or 33 or 34 (207174) 36 mammography.mp (23598) 37 screening.mp (274211) 38 36 or 37 (288429) 39 23 and 35 and 38 (2326) 40 limit 39 to (yr=" 2008 -Current" and " all adult (19 plus years)" and (dutch or english or french)) (241) 41 from 40 keep 1-241 (241) 42 from 41 keep 1-241 (241) CENTRAL Breast neoplasms (MESH) and early detection (MESH) or 61 mammography (MESH) (manual limit 2008-2010) in title , abstracts or key words
