Database | Search terms | Number of hits | Number of included articles |
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MEDLINE (Search terms via Pubmed)* | (“Hepatitis C” OR HCV) AND (“alcohol dependence” OR alcoholism OR “alcohol-dependent”) AND (pharmacological treatment OR drug therapy OR disulfiram OR naltrexone OR acamprosate OR baclofen OR ondansetron OR topiramate) | 138 | 3 |
Embase (MeSH terms via Ovid) | #1: Hepatitis C OR Hepatitis C virus | 92110 | 3 (duplicates) |
#2: Alcoholism [subheading: drug therapy] | 5267 | ||
#3: Disulfiram | 7571 | ||
#4: Naltrexone | 11449 | ||
#5: Acamprosate | 1772 | ||
#6: Baclofen | 14259 | ||
#7: Topiramate | 14850 | ||
#8: Ondansetron | 12818 | ||
#9: #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 | 60923 | ||
#10: #1 AND #9 | 237 | ||
#11: Limit #10 to human studies and year 1993 to December 2013 (final result) | 225 | ||
PsycINFO (MeSH terms via Ovid) | #1: Hepatitis | 1821 | 2 (duplicates) |
#2: Alcoholism | 24628 | ||
#3: #1 AND #2 | 62 | ||
#4: Limit #3 to human studies and year 1993 to December 2013 | 54 | ||
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (MeSH terms via Ovid) | #1: Alcoholism | 2130 | 0 |
#2: Hepatitis C | 707 | ||
#3: #1 AND #2 | 4 | ||
#4: Limit #3 to year 1993 to December 2013 | 4 | ||
Clinicaltrials.gov (unpublished) | “Hepatitis C” AND “alcohol” | 149 | 1 (underway; no results yet) |