Guideline 73 - Supporting Material

Management of obstructive sleep apnoea /hypopnoea syndrome in adults

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General comments

Searches for this guideline before this agreed format for search summaries was agreed. Some data (particularly the number of hits before and after sifting) are not available for these searches.

After the systematic review stage, searches covered all types of study rather than following the iterative approach recommended in SIGN 50 and used in larger guidelines.

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Search strategies

The following are listings of the main Medline strategies used for this guideline. All conventions and symbols are from the Ovid implementation of Medline. Strategies used in other databases were substantially the same, though different terminology may have been used to take account of different thesaurii used in non-Medline databases.

Search filters were added to identify studies of a particular type (guideline, systematic review, etc.) Listings of the search filters used by SIGN can be found on the SIGN Web site.

1. exp Sleep apnea syndromes/
2. obstructive sleep apnea.tw.
3. OSA.tw.
4. or/1-3
5. exp Airway obstruction/
6. Sleep deprivation/
7. sleepiness.tw.
8. drowsiness.tw.
9. or/6-8
10. 5 and 9
11. 4 or 10
12. limit 11 to (newborn infant < birth to 1 month > or infant < 1 to 23 months > or preschool child < 2 to 5 years > or child < 6 to 12 years > or adolescence < 13 to 18 years >)
13. 11 not 12
14. exp Automobile driving/
15. car driv$.tw.
16. vehicl$.tw.
17. machine$.tw.
18. Accidents, occupational/ or Accidents, traffic/
19. road accident$.tw.
20. exp Psychomotor performance/
21. or/14-20
22. 13 and 21
23. exp Quality of life
24. qaly.tw.
25. Health status/
26. (state adj2 health).tw.
27. wellbeing.tw.
28. well being.tw.
29. or/23-28
30. 13 and 29
31. 22 or 30 **This set selected**
32. exp anesthesia/
33. exp anesthetics/
34. (anaesth$ or anesth$).tw.
35. or/32-34
36. 13 and 35 **This set selected**