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Kuntz K, Sainfort F, Butler M, et al. Decision and Simulation Modeling in Systematic Reviews [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 Feb.
Figure G1Literature flow diagram
A search performed in October 2010, with the search string provided below, yielded 334 articles. An updated search run on March 3 yielded an additional 282 articles.
| Search Term | # articles |
|---|---|
| 1 decision analytic model$.mp. | 681 |
| 2 decision model$.mp. | 909 |
| 3 simulation model$.m | 3,523 |
| 4 markov model$.mp. | 3,135 |
| 5 state transition model$.mp. | 149 |
| 6 markov cohort model$.mp. | 15 |
| 7 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 | 8,253 |
| 8 guideline$.mp. | 180,168 |
| 9 best practice$.mp. | 4,970 |
| 10 good practice$.mp. | 1,535 |
| 11 guidance.mp. | 38,596 |
| 12 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 | 219,108 |
| 13 7 and 12 | 334 |
We also updated the search used in the Philips et al. (2004) review using the following search strategy:
| 1. (checklist? or check list? or standards or standardi?ation or peer review$ or rules or correct$ or bias or fundamentals or recommend$ or best or strength$ or weakness$ or quality or qualities or validity or guideline? or validation or checkpoint?).ti. | 286,767 |
| . (properly or critically appraise or problems or limitations or rating scale? or framework$ or protocol? or audit or principles or methodolog$).ti. | 17,5148 |
| 3. (validate or validation or evaluating or properties or guidance or integrity or evaluation or pros or cons).ti. | 429,234 |
| 4. (decision adj (tree or triage or data or analytic or analysis)).ti. | 1,516 |
| 5. *“models, economic”/ or *“models, econometric”/ | 2,467 |
| 6. (*“decision support techniques”/ or *“data interpretation, statistical”/ or *“decision theory”/ or *“models, statistical”/ or *“likelihood functions”/ or *“linear models”/ or *“logistic models”/ or *“proportional hazards models”/) and *“costs and cost analysis”/ | 14 |
| 7 ((economic? or pharmacoeconomic? or decision? or cost? or costing?) and model$).ti. | 2,789 |
| 8 (markov or crystal ball).ti. | 1,522 |
| 9 *“markov chain”/ | 1,089 |
| 10 ((markov model$ or economic model$ or mathematical model$ or cost$ model$ or pharmacoeconomic model$ or decision model$) adj2 (checklist? or check list? or standards or standardi?ation or peer review$ or rules or critiquing or criteria or good or bad or correct$ or bias or fundamentals or recommend$ or best or strength$ or weakness$ or quality or qualities or validity or guideline? or validation or checkpoint?)).ab. | 137 |
| 11 ((markov model$ or economic model$ or mathematical model$ or cost$ model$ or pharmacoeconomic model$ or decision model$) adj2 (properly or critically appraise or problems or limitations or rating scale$ or good practice$ or framework$ or protocol$ or audit or principles or methodolog$)).ab. | 102 |
| 12 ((markov model$ or economic model$ or mathematical model$ or cost$ model$ or pharmacoeconomic model$ or decision model$) adj2 (validate or validation or evaluating or properties or guidance or integrity or avoiding bias or evaluation or pros or cons)).ab. | 97 |
| 13 ((decision tree or decision triage or decision data or decision analytic$ or decision analysis or crystal ball) adj2 (checklist? or check list? or standard$ or peer review$ or rules or critiquing or criteria or good or bad or correct$ or bias or fundamentals or recommend$ or best or strength$ or weakness$ or quality or qualities or validity or guideline? or validation or checkpoint?)).ab. | 99 |
| 14 ((decision tree or decision triage or decision data or decision analytic$ or decision analysis or crystal ball) adj2 (properly or critically appraise or problems or limitations or rating scale$ or framework$ or protocol$ or audit or principles or methodolog$)).ab. | 117 |
| 15 ((decision tree or decision triage or decision data or decision analytic$ or decision analysis or crystal ball) adj2 (validate or validation or evaluating or properties or guidance or integrity or evaluation or pros or cons)).ab. | 30 |
| 16 ((economic evaluation? or economic analysis or economic stud$ or economic submission?) and guideline$).ti. | 47 |
| 17 or/10-15 | 558 |
| 18 or/4-9 | 7,805 |
| 19 or/1-3 | 849,212 |
| 20 19 and 18 | 813 |
| 21 16 or 17 or 20 | 1,389 |
| 22 limit 21 to yr=“2003-2006” | 351 |
| 23 limit 22 to english language | 326 |
| 24 limit 21 to (english language and yr=“2007-Current”) | 308 |
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