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Search strategy. |
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| Keywords used: (Pain) AND (Scale OR assessment OR measure) AND (Elderly OR residents ORgeriatric OR nursing homes OR cognitive impairment OR dementia OR Alzheimer) |
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| Source |
Hits (N =) |
Selection based on reading abstracts (N =) |
Final selection based on publications (N =) |
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| Databases |
Psychinfo 191 |
29 |
31 |
| Medline 977 |
70* |
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| CINAHL*** 219 |
17** |
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| Abstracts |
8 |
5 |
5 |
| Citation/reference screening |
37 |
17 |
15 |
| Unpublished manuscripts |
6 |
3 |
3 |
| Total |
141 |
54 |
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* N = 19/70 overlapping with the Psychinfo search ** N = 15/17 overlapping with the Psychinfo and Medline searches *** Because of the large number of publications found using CINAHL, our search of this database was limited by using the keyword 'nursing' | |||
Zwakhalen et al. BMC Geriatrics 2006 6:3 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-6-3 |
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