Table 8 Search strategy for studies looking prospectively at patients who have received an abnormal LFT*
Liver Function Test Search Strings (limited using the subheadings; blood, analysis and metabolism) | Hepatitis Search Strings |
|---|---|
Liver Function Test | Liver Diseases (diagnosis) |
Transaminases | Liver Diseases (epidemiology) |
Alanine Aminotransferases | Liver Diseases (enzymology) |
Aspartate Aminotransferases | Liver Diseases (virology) |
Alkaline Phosphatase | Liver Diseases |
Gamma-Glutamyltransferases | Â |
With Limits added (Humans and Pub date post 1980) | With Limits added (Humans and Pub date post 1980) |
Papers returned = 35070 | Papers returned = 8526 |
When strategies combined using term AND = 1448 papers whose abstracts were read | |