Table 1

Our Filters for Family Medicine/General Practice Translated for Different Databases

Filter
DatabaseSensitive FilterSpecific Filter
PubMed(“family”[all fields] OR physician*[all fields] OR practice*[tw] OR “primary care”[all fields] OR “Primary Health Care”[mh] OR primary[tw] OR general pract*[tiab] OR gp[tiab] OR gps[tiab])(“Primary Health Care”[mh] OR “primary care”[all fields] OR “Physicians, Family”[mh] OR general pract*[all fields] OR “family”[ad] OR family pract*[all fields] OR family physician*[tw])
Ovid (MEDLINE/ Embase)(family.af. OR physician$.af. OR practice$.mp. OR primary care.af. OR exp Primary Health Care/ OR primary.mp. OR general pract$.af. OR gp.tw. OR gps.tw.)(exp Primary Health Care/ OR primary care.af. OR exp Physicians, Family/ OR general pract$.af. OR family.in. OR family pract$.af. OR family physician$.mp.)
Embase.com(family OR physician* OR practice*:de,it,lnk,ab,ti OR ‘primary care’ OR ‘Primary Health Care’/exp OR primary:de,it,lnk,ab,ti OR (general NEXT/1 pract*) OR gp:ab,ti OR gps:ab,ti)(‘Primary Health Care’/exp OR ‘primary care’ OR (general NEXT/1 pract*) OR family:ad OR (family NEXT/1 pract*) OR (family NEXT/1 physician*):de,it,lnk,ab,ti)
Cochrane(“family” OR physician* OR practice*:ti,ab,kw,pt OR “primary care” OR [mh “Primary Health Care”] OR “primary”:ti,ab,kw,pt OR general pract*:ab,ti OR “gp”:ab,ti OR “gps”:ab,ti)([mh “Primary Health Care”] OR “primary care” OR [mh “Physicians, Family”] OR general pract* OR family pract* OR family physician*:ti,ab,kw,pt)
  • Notes: For easier copying and pasting of the search strings, the filters (along with field codes) are provided in the Supplemental Appendix as plain text.