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Approach to assessment<br />

Review of literature<br />

This review follows methods outlined in the Cochrane Collaboration Handbook 11<br />

appropriately modified to deal with observational studies.<br />

Literature search<br />

The medical literature was searched to identify relevant studies and reviews for the<br />

period between 1966 and 1999. Table 4 lists the electronic databases used in the search.<br />

Table 4 Electronic databases (including edition) used in the review.<br />

Database Period Covered<br />

Best Evidence (Ovid) 1991 to 1999<br />

Biological Abstracts (Ovid) 1985 to October 1999<br />

CINAHL (Ovid) 1982 to October 1999<br />

Cochrane Library including: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,<br />

the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, and the Cochrane<br />

Controlled Trials Register<br />

Issue 4, 1999<br />

EMBASE (Ovid) 1988 to October 1999<br />

HealthSTAR 1975 to October 1999<br />

Medline (Ovid) 1966 to November 1999<br />

National Guidelines Clearinghouse November 1999<br />

Nursing Collection (Ovid) 1995 to September 1999<br />

A two-stage search strategy was employed. The first stage attempted to retrieve a subset<br />

of articles focusing on HBOT, regardless of indication. The search terms used are given<br />

in table 5.<br />

Table 5 Search terms used to identify citations for the first stage of literature retrieval*<br />

hyperbar$ †<br />

hbo$<br />

multiplace chamber<br />

monoplace chamber<br />

Terms were searched as text words. A medical subject heading (MeSH) term search was conducted, if allowed by the database.<br />

† Represents wildcard.<br />

The second stage of literature retrieval focused on individual indications for HBOT. The<br />

search terms given in Table 5 were combined with terms specific for each indication<br />

(Table 6).<br />

8 <strong>Hyperbaric</strong> oxygen therapy

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