Medline (Ovid) (8 August 2023)
| Concepts | Search strategy keywords | Research and no of results |
| Trauma/recovery (controlled vocabulary) (free text) | exp ‘Wounds and Injuries’/ or exp Brain Hemorrhage, Traumatic/ or Brain Injuries/ or Coma, Post-Head Injury/ or Craniocerebral Trauma/ or Diffuse Axonal Injury/ or exp Fractures, Bone/ or Head Injuries, Closed/ or Head Injuries, Penetrating/ or exp Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic/ or exp Skull Fractures/ | #1 1 007 620 |
| Fractur* OR Injur* OR TBI OR trauma* | #2 1 430 550 | |
| 1 OR 2 | #3 1 894 323 | |
| Mental health (controlled vocabulary) (free text) | exp Mental Disorders/ or exp Mental Health/ or exp Substance-Related Disorders/ | #4 1 501 202 |
| ‘mental health’ OR ‘mental disorder*’ OR ‘mental illness’ OR ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ OR ‘post traumatic stress disorder’ OR ‘PTSD’ OR ‘Acute stress disorder*’ or ‘acute stress reaction*’ or ‘adjustment disorder*’ or ‘suicidal behavior*’ or ‘self-injur*’ or ‘self injur*’ or ‘self-harm’ or ‘self harm’ or ‘depressive disorder*’ or ‘depression’ or ‘mood disorder*’ or ‘anxiety disorder*’ or ‘trauma and stressor-related disorder*’ or ‘trauma and stressor related disorder*’ or ‘Mental distress’ or ‘psychological distress’ OR ((drug* OR substance OR alcohol OR marijuana OR cannabis OR narcotic* OR opiate* OR opioid* OR opium) Adj4 (abus* OR ‘use’ OR user OR usage OR misus* OR usin* OR utilis* OR depend* OR addict* OR illegal* OR illicit* OR habit* OR withdraw* OR behavi* OR abstinence* OR abstain* OR intoxica* OR addict* OR disorder*)) OR ‘drug rehabilitation’ OR ‘non‐prescription drugs’ OR ‘non‐prescription drug’ | #5 1 069 467 | |
| 4 OR 5 | #6 2 121 781 | |
| Guideline (controlled vocabulary) (free text) | exp Practice Guidelines as Topic/ or exp Practice Guideline/ or exp Guidelines as Topic/ or exp Guideline/ | #7 208 566 |
| Guide OR Guideline* | #8 676 237 | |
| 7 OR 8 | #9 784 520 | |
| Total | 3 AND 6 AND 9 Limit to 2008–2023 | 3882 |
PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.