Report in English with a Dutch summary (KCE reports 45A)

198 Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Appendices KCE reports vol.45
Exclusion criteria
exception of studies on colonoscopic screening where consideration was also
made of study designs with lower levels of evidence to reflect the best
evidence available on the subject. Those studies were mainly observational
studies and diagnostic accuracy studies.
NOTE
2. Secondary research studies reporting systematic reviews or
meta-analyses of RCTs were included if they contained a
methods section describing how the relevant studies were
identified.
3. RCTs and other original studies on CRC screening participation
and patient compliance were also included for documentary
purposes.
1. Non-systematic reviews, correspondence, editorials, expert
opinion articles, comments, articles published in abstract form
only, conference proceedings, studies that did not clearly
describe their methods/results, and exclusively animal studies.
2. Studies on CRC screening in specific non-European ethnic
(sub)groups.
3. All searches were limited to the years 2005 - 2006 and were
completed on October, 31 st 2006.
Following tables (and counts) are limited to the years 2005-2006 (October,
31 st). However, searches were also performed for the last three months of
2004, with elimination of those publications referred to in the NZHTA report,
2005.
Ovid MEDLINE 1966 to Present incl. In-Process & Other Non-Indexed
Citations
# Search History Results
1 exp colorectal neoplasms/ 98.806
(colo$ adj (cancer$ or neoplas$ or malign$ or carcino$ or adeno$ or polyp$
2
or tubul$ or vill$ or tum$)).mp.
96.785
((bowel or intestin$) adj (cancer$ or neoplas$ or malign$ or carcino$ or
3
adeno$ or polyp$ or tubul$ or vill$ or tum$)).mp.
23.607
(sigmoi$ adj (cancer$ or neoplas$ or malign$ or carcino$ or adeno$ or
4
polyp$ or tubul$ or vill$ or tum$)).mp.
3.199
((caec$ or cec$) adj (cancer$ or neoplas$ or malign$ or carcino$ or adeno$
5
or polyp$ or tubul$ or vill$ or tum$)).mp.
1.967
(rect$ adj (cancer$ or neoplas$ or malign$ or carcino$ or adeno$ or polyp$
6
or tubul$ or vill$ or tum$)).mp.
28.102
7 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 134.787
8 mass screening/ 54.473
9 screen$.mp. 299.229
10 8 or 9 299.230
11 7 and 10 9.577
12 limit 11 to yr="2005 - 2006" 1.557