Topiramate versus carbamazepine monotherapy for partial onset seizures or generalized onset tonic‐clonic seizures with or without other generalized seizure types
Appendices
Appendix 1. Proposed search strategy for MEDLINE (Ovid)
This strategy is based on the Cochrane Highly Sensitive Search Strategy for identifying randomized trials published in Lefebvre 2009.
1. randomized controlled trial.pt.
2. controlled clinical trial.pt.
3. randomized.ab.
4. placebo.ab.
5. drug therapy.fs.
6. randomly.ab.
7. trial.ab.
8. groups.ab.
9. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8
10. exp animals/ not humans.sh.
11. 9 not 10
12. exp Epilepsy/
13. epilep$.tw.
14. exp Seizures/
15. seizure$.tw.
16. convulsion$.tw.
17. 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16
18. (topiramate or Topamax).tw.
19. *Carbamazepine/
20. (carbamazepine or Tegretol or Carbatrol or Epitol).tw.
21. 19 or 20
22. 21 and 18
23. 22 and 11 and 17
