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Table 1 Candidate search terms

From: Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase

Search number

Search term

S1

[SO] NOT ((women not men) OR (female not male)).tw

S2

[SO] NOT ((women or female) NOT (men or male)).tw

S3

[SO] AND (male or males or men).tw

S4

[SO] NOT Female/

S5

[SO] AND Male/

S6

[SO] NOT (Female/not Male/)

S7

[SO] AND Men/

S8

[SO] AND Men's health/

  1. SO subject-only search, / MeSH term or Emtree term, .tw text word(s) from title and/or abstract fields.