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Chapter 2
Appendix A and B
Appendix A: Search strategy - Medline
# Searches
1 Postmenopause/
2 postmenopau*.tw.
3 post-menopau*.tw.
4 or/1-3
5 exp Hemorrhage/
6 (bleed* or hemorrhag* or haemorrhag* or blood loss*).tw.
7 or/5-6
8 4 and 7
9 hysteroscopy/
10 hysteroscop*.tw.
11 or/9-10
12 Biopsy/ or Biopsy, Needle/
13 exp Curettage/
14 (biop* or curett* or pipelle*).tw.
15 or/12-14
16 ultrasonography/ or endosonography/ or exp ultrasonography, doppler/
17 vagina/us or endometrium/us or Uterine Hemorrhage/us or exp Uterine
Neoplasms/us or exp Uterine Diseases/us
18 ((endometr* or vagina* or endovagin* or transvagina* or trans-vagina*
or endo-vagi* or uter* or intrauter* or intra-uteri*) adj6 (echo* or ultrasound or ultrasono* or sonograph* or doppler or endoscop* or endoson*)).tw.
19 (hysterosalpingogr* or hysterosonogra*).tw.
20 thick*.tw.
21 or/16-20
22 11 or 15 or 21
23 8 and 22
24 exp “sensitivity and specificity”/
25 (diagnos* or test or tests or exclude or value or role or evaluation).ti.
26 (accurac* or (sensitivit* and specificit*) or (predictive adj3 value*1) or (false
adj2 (negative or positive)) or ROC or pretest or validat*).tw.
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