Interventions for promoting physical activity in people with COPD
Appendices
Appendix 1. Sources and search methods for the Cochrane Airways Group's Specialised Register (CAGR)
Electronic searches: core databases
| Database | Search f requency |
| MEDLINE (Ovid) | Weekly |
| Embase (Ovid) | Weekly |
| CENTRAL (the Cochrane Library) | Monthly |
| PsycINFO (Ovid) | Monthly |
| CINAHL (EBSCO) | Monthly |
| AMED (EBSCO) | Monthly |
Handsearches: core respiratory conference abstracts
| Conference | Years searched |
| American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) | 2001 onwards |
| American Thoracic Society (ATS) | 2001 onwards |
| Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) | 2004 onwards |
| British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting (BTS) | 2000 onwards |
| Chest Meeting | 2003 onwards |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1992 onwards |
| International Primary Care Respiratory Group Congress (IPCRG) | 2002 onwards |
| Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) | 1989 onwards |
MEDLINE search strategy
COPD search
1. Lung Diseases, Obstructive/
2. exp Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/
3. emphysema$.mp.
4. (chronic$ adj3 bronchiti$).mp.
5. (obstruct$ adj3 (pulmonary or lung$ or airway$ or airflow$ or bronch$ or respirat$)).mp.
6. COPD.mp.
7. COAD.mp.
8. COBD.mp.
9. AECB.mp.
10. or/1‐9
Filter to identify RCTs
1. exp "clinical trial [publication type]"/
2. (randomised or randomised).ab,ti.
3. placebo.ab,ti.
4. dt.fs.
5. randomly.ab,ti.
6. trial.ab,ti.
7. groups.ab,ti.
8. or/1‐7
9. Animals/
10. Humans/
11. 9 not (9 and 10)
12. 8 not 11
(The MEDLINE strategy and RCT filter (Lefebvre 2011) are adapted to identify trials in other electronic databases.)
Appendix 2. CAGR search strategy
#1 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Explode All
#2 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Bronchitis, Chronic
#3 (obstruct*) near3 (pulmonary or lung* or airway* or airflow* or bronch* or respirat*)
#4 COPD:MISC1
#5 (COPD OR COAD OR COBD OR AECOPD):TI,AB,KW
#6 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5
#7 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Motor Activity
#8 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Exercise Test
#9 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Ergometry
#10 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Activities of Daily Living Explode All
#11 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Energy Metabolism
#12 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Exercise Tolerance
#13 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Walking
#14 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Monitoring, Ambulatory
#15 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Actigraphy
#16 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Physical Fitness
#17 physical* NEXT activit*
#18 pedometer*
#19 accelerometer*
#20 activity NEXT monitor*
#21 step* NEXT count*
#22 activity NEAR3 (monitor* or count* or level*)
#23 energy NEXT expenditure
#24 walking NEAR distance*
#25 (physical* OR activity or exercise* or rehabilitat* or life‐style*) NEAR3 (counselling* or feedback* or program* or coach* or increase* or improve* or modif* or promot* or advice*)
#26 #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 or #24 or #25
#27 #6 and #26
[in search line #4, MISC1 denotes the field in the record where the reference has been coded for condition, in this case, COPD]
