Database: EBM Reviews – Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials <July 2020>

Search Strategy:

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1     exp Spinal Cord Injuries/ (1659)

2     Quadriplegia/ (190)

3     Paraplegia/ (205)

4     (myelopath* adj3 (trauma* or post-trauma*)).ti,ab. (3)

5     ((spine or spinal or vertebra*) adj3 (fracture* or trauma* or injur* or damag*)).ti,ab. (6670)

6     (spinal cord adj3 (injur* or contus* or lacerat* or transect* or trauma* or isch?emia)).ti,ab. (3232)

7     (parapleg* or quadripleg* or tetrapleg*).ti,ab. (886)

8     (central spinal cord adj3 syndrome).ti,ab. (1)

9     SCI.ti,ab. (2218)

10     1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 (8073)

Database: Embase Classic+Embase <1947 to 2020 August 13>

Search Strategy:

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1     exp spinal cord injury/ (80239)

2     exp spinal cord ischemia/ (4284)

3     exp paraplegia/ (27814)

4     (myelopath* adj3 (trauma* or post trauma*)).ti,ab. (229)

5     ((spine or spinal or vertebra*) adj3 (fracture* or trauma* or injur* or damag*)).ti,ab. (96510)

6     (spinal cord adj3 (injur* or contus* or lacerat* or transect* or trauma* or isch?emia)).ti,ab. (59016)

7     (central spinal cord adj3 syndrome).ti,ab. (12)

8     SCI.ti,ab. (48864)

9     (parapleg* or quadripleg* or tetrapleg*).ti,ab. (33783)

10     or/1-9 (188718)

11     Clinical trial/ (1001390)

12     Randomized controlled trial/ (618265)

13     Randomization/ (87877)

14     Single blind procedure/ (39886)

15     Double blind procedure/ (177567)

16     Crossover procedure/ (64374)

17     Placebo/ (364157)

18     Randomi?ed controlled trial$.tw. (234769)

19     Rct.tw. (38172)

20     Random allocation.tw. (2134)

21     Randomly allocated.tw. (36077)

22     Allocated randomly.tw. (2600)

23     (allocated adj2 random).tw. (983)

24     Single blind$.tw. (25493)

25     Double blind$.tw. (216990)

26     ((treble or triple) adj blind$).tw. (1225)

27     Placebo$.tw. (316762)

28     Prospective study/ (622386)

29     or/11-28 (2275463)

30     Case study/ (80602)

31     Case report.tw. (446697)

32     Abstract report/ or letter/ (1158981)

33     or/30-32 (1675336)

34     Animal experiment/ not (human experiment/ or human/) (2264248)

35     33 or 34 (3894371)

36     (10 and 29) not 35 (14857)

37     limit 36 to conference abstract status (3250)

38     36 not 37 (11607)

Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL <1946 to August 13, 2020>

Search Strategy:

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1     exp spinal cord injuries/ or central cord syndrome/ or Spinal Cord Compression/ (48726)

2     exp Spinal Cord/ and exp “Wounds and Injuries”/ (9945)

3     exp paraplegia/ or quadriplegia/ (19569)

4     (myelopath* adj3 (trauma* or post-trauma*)).ti,ab. (180)

5     ((spine or spinal or vertebra*) adj3 (fracture* or trauma* or injur* or damag*)).ti,ab. (69962)

6     (spinal cord adj3 (injur* or contus* or lacerat* or transect* or trauma* or isch?emia)).ti,ab. (44866)

7     SCI.ti,ab. (34659)

8     (central spinal cord adj3 syndrome).ti,ab. (10)

9     (parapleg* or quadripleg* or tetrapleg*).ti,ab. (23126)

10     or/1-9 (132080)

11     Randomized controlled trials as Topic/ (135270)

12     Randomized controlled trial/ (511146)

13     Random allocation/ (103360)

14     Double blind method/ (159244)

15     Single blind method/ (28900)

16     Clinical trial/ (524255)

17     exp Clinical Trials as Topic/ (344404)

18     or/11-17 (1178511)

19     (clinic$ adj trial$1).tw. (370575)

20     ((singl$ or doubl$ or treb$ or tripl$) adj (blind$3 or mask$3)).tw. (173714)

21     Placebos/ (35022)

22     Placebo$.tw. (216979)

23     Randomly allocated.tw. (28975)

24     (allocated adj2 random).tw. (799)

25     or/19-24 (639473)

26     18 or 25 (1458119)

27     Case report.tw. (314378)

28     Letter/ (1094253)

29     Historical article/ (359648)

30     Review of reported cases.pt. (0)

31     Review, multicase.pt. (0)

32     or/27-31 (1752210)

33     exp animals/ not humans.sh. (4725270)

34     26 not (32 or 33) (1333215)

35     34 and 10 (7555)