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Table 2 MEDLINE search strategy

From: Protocol: systematic review of the association between socio-economic status and survival in adult head and neck cancer

Inequality

Head and neck cancers

Survival

“Socioeconomic Factors” [Mesh]

“Head and Neck Neoplasms” [Mesh]

survival

inequit*

“Carcinoma, squamous cell of head and neck” [Supplementary Concept]

 

inequalit*

head AND neck AND (cancer OR neoplasm OR carcinoma)

 

disparit*

  
  1. (“Socioeconomic Factors” [Mesh] OR inequit* OR inequalit* OR disparit*) AND (“Head and Neck Neoplasms”[Mesh] OR “Carcinoma, squamous cell of head and neck” [Supplementary Concept] OR (head AND neck AND (cancer OR neoplasm OR carcinoma)) AND survival); limited to >1989, human, abstract available, English language. Rows combined with logical “OR” and columns with logical “AND”