Considerations for conducting systematic reviews: evaluating the performance of different methods for de-duplicating references

Table 1 Customized database search strategies utilizing keywords^a and database-specific subject headings on the Ovid platform

#	Searches	Results
1	psilocybin*.mp. or psilocybin/	3130
2	1 use ppez [MEDLINE segment]	895
3	psilocybin*.mp. or psilocybine/	3130
4	3 use emczd [Embase segment]	1672
5	psilocybin*.mp. or psilocybin/	3130
6	5 use psyh [PsycINFO segment]	449
7	psilocybin*.mp.	3130
8	7 use cctr [CENTRAL segment]	114
9	2 or 4 or 6 or 8	3130

^aBy default, Ovid searches for your keywords in the default multi-purpose (.mp) set of fields
*The use of an asterisk in the search strategy indicates unlimited right-hand truncation, which searches for variations on a word that are formed with different suffixes
/The forward slash denotes a subject heading search

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