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No. 8

Task: Present the full electronic search strategy for at least one database, including any limits used, such that it could be repeated.

Text: Search strategy for MEDLINE

  1. random$.af.
  2. ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj (blind$ or mask$)).af.
  3. (phase III or phase 3 or phase IV or phase 4).af.
  4. controlled clinical trial$.af.
  5. placebo$.af.
  6. (meta?analys$ or (meta adj1 analys$)).af.
  7. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6
  8. exp breast neoplasms/
  9. (breast$ adj5 (neoplas$ or carcinom$ or cancer$ or tumor$ or tumour$)).af.
  10. (advanced or metastatic or inoperable).ti.
  11. locally advanced.af. or (neoadjuvant or adjuvant or early or operable).ti.
  12. 10 not 11
  13. (8 or 9) not 12
  14. 7 and 13
  15. Human$/
  16. Animal$/
  17. 16 not (15 and 16)
  18. 14 not 17
  19. 18