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Search Strategy

We use the following search strategy to identify new studies released each week into the PubMed® database, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

"proportional hazards ratio"[tiab] OR "hazards ratio"[tiab] OR "relative risk"[tiab] OR "risk ratio"[tiab] OR "rate ratio"[tiab] OR ((age AND (standardised OR standardized) AND mortality)[tiab] OR SMR[tiab] OR rate[tiab] OR risk[tiab] OR relative[tiab] OR proportion[tiab] OR percent[tiab] OR percentage[tiab] OR epidemiology[MeSH] OR "models, statistical"[MeSH] OR "models, biological"[MeSH]

AND

mortality[MAJR] OR "survival analysis"[MAJR] OR "survival rate"[MAJR] OR "relative mortality"[tiab] OR "survival analysis"[tiab] OR "survival rate"[tiab] OR "death rate"[tiab] OR longevity[tiab] OR "life expectancy"[tiab] OR ((mortality[tiab] OR survival[tiab] OR death[tiab]) AND (trend[tiab] OR trends[tiab] OR increase[tiab] OR improve[tiab] OR improvement[tiab] OR decrease[tiab] OR decline[tiab] OR rate[tiab])) OR mortality/*trends[MeSH] OR "life expectancy/*trends"[MeSH]

AND Evaluation Studies[ptyp] OR Multicenter Study[ptyp] OR Observational Study[ptyp] OR Dataset[ptyp]

AND hasabstract[text] AND Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang]

OR

quality of life[tiab] or QOL[tiab] OR HRQOL[tiab] OR "patient reported outcome"[tiab] OR PRO[tiab] OR "patient-reported"[tiab] OR "clinician-reported"[tiab] OR "carer-reported"[tiab]

AND questionnaire[tiab] OR tool[tiab] OR instrument[tiab] OR survey[tiab] OR utility[tiab] OR utilities[tiab] OR euroqol[tiab] OR EQ5D[tiab] OR "EQ 5D"[tiab] OR "short form"[tiab] OR "short form 36"[tiab] OR SF36[tiab] OR "SF 36"[tiab] OR "time trade off"[tiab] OR TTO[tiab] OR "standard gamble"[tiab]

AND Clinical Trial[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase I[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase II[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase III[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase IV[ptyp] OR Comparative Study[ptyp] OR Controlled Clinical Trial[ptyp] OR Evaluation Studies[ptyp] OR Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR Multicenter Study[ptyp] OR Observational Study[ptyp] OR Randomized Controlled Trial[ptyp] OR systematic[sb] OR Validation Studies[ptyp]

AND hasabstract[text] AND Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang]

OR

cost[tiab] OR "resource use"[tiab] OR "economic burden"[tiab] OR costs[tiab] OR "financial burden"[tiab] OR ((direct[tiab] OR indirect[tiab] OR informal[tiab] OR production[tiab] OR employment[tiab] OR productivity[tiab] OR hospital[tiab] OR community[tiab] OR "primary care"[tiab] OR "secondary care"[tiab] OR "social care"[tiab] OR "tertiary care"[tiab]) AND (cost[tiab] OR resource[tiab] OR expenditure[tiab] OR price[tiab] OR dollar[tiab] OR economic[tiab]))

AND Clinical Trial[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase I[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase II[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase III[ptyp] OR Clinical Trial, Phase IV[ptyp] OR Comparative Study[ptyp] OR Controlled Clinical Trial[ptyp] OR Evaluation Studies[ptyp] OR Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR Multicenter Study[ptyp] OR Randomized Controlled Trial[ptyp] OR systematic[sb] OR Validation Studies[ptyp] OR Observational Study[ptyp]

AND hasabstract[text] AND Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang]

OR

cost-effective[tiab] OR "cost-effectiveness"[tiab] OR "cost-benefit"[tiab] OR "cost-utility"[tiab] OR "economic model"[tiab] OR markov[tiab] OR "discrete event simulation"[tiab] OR "economic evaluation"[tiab] OR cost-minimisation[tiab] OR cost-saving[tiab] OR "budget impact model"[tiab]

AND hasabstract[text] AND Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang]