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# Supplementary material 1 to:
Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community

Gillespie LD , Robertson MC , Gillespie WJ , Sherrington C , Gates S , Clemson L , Lamb SE
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007146.pub3

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# Search strategies

## Search strategies and number of records identified

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## The Cochrane Library 2012, Issue 3 (Wiley InterScience)

This is Appendix 1.

Added by Rasmus
Figure: Figure 3
Analysis: Analysis 1.3
Section in suppl: Supplementary material 2
Section in suppl: Supplementary material 6
Section in main: Objectives
Study: Bischoff-Ferrari 2010
Other ref: 1
Appendix: Supplementary material 10
Table: Table 1
RoB2 table: Risk of bias 2 table 1
RoB2 tables: Supplementary material 6

#1 MeSH descriptor Accidental Falls, this term only (737)
#2 ("falls" or "faller*"):ti,ab (1756)
#3 (#1 OR #2) (1982)
#4 MeSH descriptor Aged explode all trees (793)
#5 ("older" or "senior*" or "elderly"):ti,ab (23049)
#6 (#4 OR #5) (23153)
#7 (#3 AND #6) in Trials (The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) (756)

* indicates truncation
ti,ab denotes word in the title or abstract

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## MEDLINE (Ovid Interface) (1946 to 1 March 2012)

1. Accidental Falls/ (12544)
2. (falls or faller$1).tw. (22940 )
3. or/1-2 (29198 )
4. exp Aged/ (2059145 )
5. (senior$1 or elderly or older).tw. (336186)
6. or/4-5 (2185007)
7. and/3,6 (12164)
8. randomized controlled trial.pt. (320017)
9. controlled clinical trial.pt. (83538)
10. randomized.ab. (225184)
11. placebo.ab. (128635)
12. randomly.ab. (162817)
13. trial.ab. (232226)
14. groups.ab. (1074761)
15. or/8-14 (1573193)
16. humans.sh. (12076140)
17. and/15,16 (1192470)
18. and/7,17 (2770)

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## Ovid MEDLINE pending (searched 1 March 2012)

1. (falls or faller$1).tw. (1642)
2. (senior$1 or elderly or older).tw. (16025)
3. and/1-2 (369)
4. randomized controlled trial.pt. (813)
5. controlled clinical trial.pt. (47)
6. random$.tw. (37884)
7. placebo.tw. (4914)
8. trial.tw. (14097 )
9. groups.tw. (67271)
10. or/4-9 (102433)
11. and/3,10 (96)

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## EMBASE (Ovid Interface) (1947 to 1 March 2012)

1 Falling/ (19691)
2 (falls or fallers).tw. (34231)
3 or/1-2 (44965)
4 exp Aged/ (1979140)
5 (elderly or senior$ or older).tw. (461797)
6 or/4-5 (2200808)
7 and/3,6 (15329)
8 exp Randomized Controlled trial/ (300381)
9 exp Double Blind Procedure/ (107916)
10 exp Single Blind Procedure/ (14885)
11 exp Crossover Procedure/ (32263)
12 or/8-11 (343532)
13 ((clinical or controlled or comparative or placebo or prospective$ or randomi#ed) adj3 (trial or study)).tw. (629658)
14 (random$ adj7 (allocat$ or allot$ or assign$ or basis$ or divid$ or order$)).tw. (146149)
15 ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj7 (blind$ or mask$)).tw. (147301)
16 (cross?over$ or (cross adj1 over$)).tw. (61912)
17 ((allocat$ or allot$ or assign$ or divid$) adj3 (condition$ or experiment$ or intervention$ or treatment$ or therap$ or control$ or group$)).tw. (191960)
18 or/13-17 (944973)
19 or/12,18 (1059749)
20 Animal/ not Human/ (1279726)
21 19 not 20 (1029496)
22 and/7,21 (2456)

Footnote for OVID:
.pt. denotes a Publication Type term;
.ab. denotes a word in the abstract;
.sh. or / denotes a Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) term;
.ti. denotes a word in the title.

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## CINAHL (Ebsco) (1982 to 28 February 2012)

1. (MH "Accidental Falls") (10181)
2. TI ( falls or faller or fallers ) OR AB ( falls or faller or fallers ) (7898)
3. S1 or S2 (13330)
4. (MH Aged+) (357594)
5. TI ( senior or seniors or elderly or older ) OR AB ( senior or seniors or elderly or older ) (108768)
6. S4 or S5 (391502)
7. S3 and S6 (7562)
8. (MH "Clinical Trials+") (134839)
9. (MH "Evaluation Research+") (17947)
10. (MH "Comparative Studies") (65407)
11. (MH "Crossover Design") (8833)
12. PT clinical trial (69009)
13. (MH "Random Assignment") (31719)
14. S8 or S9 or S10 or S11 or S12 or S13 (221068)
15. TX ((clinical or controlled or comparative or placebo or prospective or randomi?ed) and (trial or study)) (382157)
16. TX (random* and (allocat* or allot* or assign* or basis* or divid* or order*)) (55209)
17.TX ((singl* or doubl* or trebl* or tripl*) and (blind* or mask*)) (602431)
18.TX ( crossover* or 'cross over' ) OR TX cross n1 over (11218)
19. TX ((allocat* or allot* or assign* or divid*) and (condition* or experiment* or intervention* or treatment* or therap* or control* or group*)) (68956)
20 S15 or S16 or S17 or S18 or S19 (912682)
21. S14 or S20 (968269)
22. S7 and S21 (3604)

## References

1. Higgins JPT , Altman DG , Sterne JAC (editors) . Chapter 8: Assessing risk of bias in included studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 (updated March 2011). The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.cochrane-handbook.org.