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Table 1 Feasibility of yield of literature of pilot electronic search strategy for post-graduate student’s research

From: Where is students’ research in evidence-informed decision-making in health? Assessing productivity and use of postgraduate students’ research in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Search number (Data base)

Search terms (and date)

Number of hitsa (Relevant)

#7 (PubMed)

(((((((Medicine[tiab] OR Nursing[tiab] OR Dentistry[tiab] OR Pharmacy[tiab] OR “Public health”))) AND ((Degree*[tiab] OR Doctor*[tiab] OR Post-doc*[tiab] OR PhD[tiab] OR Master*[tiab] OR Fellow*[tiab] OR Residen*[tiab] OR Student*[tiab] OR Trainee*[tiab] OR Graduate*[tiab] OR Post-grad*[tiab])))) AND ((Mentor*[tiab] OR Grantee [tiab] OR Fund*[tiab] OR Supervis*[tiab] OR Workshop*[tiab] OR Seminar*[tiab] OR Conference*[tiab] OR “Manuscript-writing”[tiab] OR "Scientific-writing”[tiab] OR "Academic-writing”[tiab] OR "Scholarly-writing”[tiab] OR “Grants-writing”[tiab] OR “Capacity building”[tiab] OR Research[tiab])))) AND ((Abstract*[tiab] OR Thesis[tiab] OR Theses[tiab] OR Dissertation*[tiab] OR publication*[tiab] OR “Poster session” OR “Poster presentation” [tiab] OR “Book chapter” [tiab] OR “Technical report”[tiab] OR “Policy brief”[tiab] OR “Policy dialogue” [tiab] OR “Evidence informed policy”[tiab] OR “Evidence based policy”[tiab] OR “Evidence informed health policy”[tiab] OR “Evidence based health policy”[tiab] OR “Decision making”[tiab] OR “Policy making”[tiab] OR Dissemination[tiab]))

a3460 (b176, 5%)

  1. aNumber of article titles and abstracts as at 21 June 2016
  2. bSorted by relevance and initial screening of titles and abstracts