Appendix 1. Details of past searches for earlier versions of this review

The following search phrase was constructed to assist identification for previous versions of this review (New Reference).

(sulpiride‐phrase) = (abilit or championyl or coolspan or col‐sulpir or digton or dixibon or dobren or dogmatil or dolmatil or drominetas or eglonyl or equilid or eusulpid or guastil or isnamid or kapiride or lavodina or lebopride or lusedan or miradol or mirbanil or misulvan or neuromyfar or normum or omperan or psicocen or quiridil or sato or sernevin or sicofrenol or sulpiride or sulpisedan or suprium or sursumid or tepavil or tonofit or ulpir or vipral)

1. Biological Abstracts (January 1982 to December 1997) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and (sulpiride‐phrase)]

2 CINAHL (January 1982 to March 1998) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and (sulpiride‐phrase)]

3. Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's Register (March 1998) was searched using:

[(sulpiride‐phrase) or #42=110 or #42=563] (#42 is the field in the Register where each intervention is coded. 110 is sulpiride and 563 Dogmatil or Dolmatil).

4. Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 1998) was searched using:

[(sulpiride‐phrase) or SULPIRIDE/explode in MeSH] 5. EMBASE (January 1980 to January 1998) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and ((sulpiride‐phrase) or explode SULPIRIDE / all)]

6. MEDLINE (January 1966 to April 1998) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and ((sulpiride‐phrase) or SULPIRIDE / explode in MeSH)]

7. PsycLIT (January 1974 to September 1997) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and ((sulpiride‐phrase) or SULPIRIDE / explode in MeSH)]

8. SIGLE (January 1994 to December 1997) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and (sulpiride‐phrase)]

9. Sociofile (January 1974 to December 1997) was searched using the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's phrase for randomised controlled trials and for schizophrenia (see Group search strategy) combined with:

[and (sulpiride‐phrase)]