TableĀ 1

Search strategy and results of the systematic literature search, with total number of unique articles per database

MeSH or text wordsPubMed*EMBASE*Ovid/MEDLIN*EReferences*Total*
A. 1 or 4 or 80/00/00/0
B. a AND 2 0R 50/00/00/0
C. a AND 2 OR 5 AND 321/40/020/5
D. a AND 2 OR 5 AND 3 or 7 or 90/00/00/0
E. a AND 65/115/17/0
F. a AND 6 AND 30/09/00/0
G. a AND 6 AND 70/011/10/0
H. 2 OR 5 AND 30/00/013/1
I. 3 AND 629/60/02/0
J 3 AND 6 AND 7 OR6/111/00/0
K. a AND 2 OR 5 AND 3 AND 62/07/11/0
Individual database totals63/1253/343/637/4196/25
Number of articles included in systematic review1236425
  • *Cell values represent: # potentially relevant articles/# articles included in systematic review.

  • 1=Athletic injuries [MeSH], 2=Children [MeSH/tw], 3=Injury Prevention (tw), 4=Sport Injury (tw). 5=Youth (tw). 6=Team sport [tw], 7=Interventions. 8=Injury [tw], 9=Warm-up (tw).

  • MeSH, Medical subject heading, tw, text word.