. "Appendix B: Search Strategy." Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Assessment of the Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.
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Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Assessment of the Evidence
Search 7—Treatment outcomes, prognosis, disease progression or recovery
((Anxiety Disorders) OR PTSD) AND Veterans AND (Treatment Outcomes)
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EACH SET EMPLOYED IN THESEARCHES OUTLINED ABOVE
All databases were searched via the OVID database gateway. OVID command-line syntax:
Exp [explode] – automatically includes all narrower subject heading from the thesaurus or controlled vocabulary for any given database
Forward slash [/] – forces OVID to search in the subject headings or controlled vocabulary
Adj – adjacency or proximity operator
Pt=publication type; ti=title; ab=abstract ; sh=subject heading ; fs=floating sub-heading ; dt=drug therapy sub-heading ; th=therapeutic interventions other than drug therapies, subheading
Anxiety Disorders and Traumatic Stress Disorders Set
(exp Anxiety Disorder?/ or (anxiety disorder? or post-traumatic stress or posttraumatic stress or PTSD).ti,ab. or combat experience/)) [NOTE: exploding (exp) Anxiety Disorders automatically includes all types of Traumatic Stress Disorders to include PTSD]
Veterans or Military Set
(veteran? or veterans, hospitals/ or military medicine/ or military psychiatry/ or military personnel/ or exp War/ OR World War I/ or World War II/ or Korean War/ or vietnam conflict/ or Gulf War/ OR (army or navy or air force or marines or soldier)
veterans/ or exp military phenomena/ or soldier/ or battle injury/)
Drug Therapies or Pharmacotherapies Set
(exp drug therapy/ or (drug therap$ or pharmacotherap$).ti,ab. or exp serotonin uptake inhibitors/ or exp serotonin agents/ or (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI?) OR exp Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors/ OR MAOI? OR exp Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic/ OR ((TCA? and antidepress$) or anti depress$) OR exp Stress Disorders, Traumatic/dt or exp