Search strategy and results of the systematic literature search, with total number of unique articles per database
| MeSH or text words* | MEDLINE | PubMed | CINAHL | EMBASE | Sport Discus | Scopus | CCTR | CDSR | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 and 6 | 269/269/17 | 170/2/0 | 177/87/0 | 24/3/0 | 1/1/0 | 193/3/0 | 6/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| 1 and 7 | 4/1/0 | 37/4/0 | 0/0/0 | 10/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 28/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | |
| 1 and 8 | 1/1/ 0 | 1/0/0 | 1/0/0 | 278/57/0 | 1/0/0 | 224/3/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| 1 and 9 | 1053/860/4 | 545/93/1 | 2/0/0 | 1542/647/0 | 18/1/0 | 636/28/0 | 23/0/0 | 40/39/0 | |
| 1 and 10 | 133/0/0 | 487/62/0 | 3/0/0 | 34/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 120/0/0 | 1/0/0 | 3/0/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and 6 | 47/0/0 | 3/0/0 | 4/0/0 | 2/0/0 | 1/0/0 | 18/1/0 | 0/0/0 | 2/0/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and 7 | 2/1/0 | 0/0/0 | 5/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 2/0/0 | 6/1/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and 8 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 6/0/0 | 12/2/0 | 3/0/0 | 22/3/0 | 0/0/0 | 2/0/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and 9 | 195/167/3 | 25/1/0 | 7/0/0 | 147/64/0 | 4/0/0 | 90/19/0 | 6/1/0 | 8/6/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and 10 | 4/0/0 | 19/4/0 | 8/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 5/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/1/0 | |
| 5 and 6 | 39/9/0 | 38/0/0 | 9/0/0 | 7/0/0 | 6/0/0 | 41/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| 5 and 7 | 0/0/0 | 15/3/0 | 10/0/0 | 1/1/0 | 7/0/0 | 6/1/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | |
| 5 and 8 | 0/0/0 | 1/1/0 | 11/0/0 | 49/4/0 | 8/0/0 | 56/3/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| 5 and 9 | 58/14/0 | 76/8/0 | 12/0/0 | 112/20/0 | 9/0/0 | 85/5/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| 5 and 10 | 2/0/0 | 57/3/0 | 13/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 10/0/0 | 2/2/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | |
| 1 and (6 OR 7 OR 8 OR 9 OR 10) and 11 | 75/0/0 | 29/0/0 | 14/0/0 | 63/0/0 | 11/0/0 | 48/0/0 | 2/0/0 | 11/0/0 | |
| 2 and (3 OR 4) and (6 OR 7 OR 8 OR 9 OR 10) and 11 | 28/0/0 | 1/0/0 | 15/0/0 | 3/0/0 | 12/0/0 | 9/3/0 | 0/0/0 | 2/0/0 | |
| 5 and (6 OR 7 OR 8 OR 9 OR 10) and 11 | 4/0/0 | 3/0/0 | 16/0/0 | 4/0/0 | 13/0/0 | 5/4/0 | 0/0/0 | 1/0/0 | |
| Individual Database Totals | 1914/1322/24 | 1507/181/1 | 183/87/0 | 2288/798/0 | 26/2/0 | 1589/76/0 | 38/1/0 | 75/46/0 | 8/8/4 |
| No. of articles included in systematic review | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Cell values represent potentially relevant/unique (eg, not a duplicate)/included in systematic review.
*1=Groin (MeSH), 2=hip (MeSH), 3=adductor (tw), 4=flexor (tw), 5=osteitis pubis (tw), 6=athletic injuries (MeSH), 7=sprain, 8=strain (MeSH), 9=sport injur×(tw), 10=injur×(tw), 11=wounds and injuries (MeSH), 12=risk factors (MeSH); CCTR, Cochrane central register of controlled trials; CDSR, Cochrane database for systematic and complete reviews; CINAHL, Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature; EMBASE, Excerpta medical databases; MeSH, medical subject heading; tw, text word.