Supplementary Table 1: Search strategy
Surveillance programs of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Cochrane [Wiley]
ID Search Hits
#1 (hepatoma* or ((hepatocellular* or ((adult or cell) Near/2 liver)) Near/5 (cancer* or tumo?r* or
neo?plas* or carcinom* or oncolog* or sarcom*))):ti,ab 4542
#2 surveillance*:ti,ab,kw 7858
#3 #1 and #2 72
#4 (train* or program*):ti,ab,kw 189843
#5 ((telephone* or mail*) Near/3 outreach*):ti,ab,kw 183
#6 (remind* Near/5 system*):ti,ab,kw 1412
#7 #4 or #5 or #6 190899
#8 #3 and #7 20
#9
(newborn* or new-born* or neonat* or neo-nat* or infan* or child* or adolesc* or paediatr* or pediatr* or baby* or babies* or toddler* or kid or kids or boy* or girl* or juvenile* or teen* or
youth* or pubescen*):ti,ab 194684
#10 #8 not #9 14
#11
((animals or animal or canine* or cat or cats or dog or dogs or feline or hamster* or mice or monkey or monkeys or mouse or murine or pig or pigs or piglet* or porcine or primate* or rabbit*
or rats or rat or rodent* or sheep* or veterinar*) not (human* or patient*)):ti,ab 8093
#12 #10 not #10 14
#13 PubMed:an 681275
#14 Embase:an 564803
#14 #12 NOT (#13 OR #14) 3
Embase [Ovid]
Embase Classic+Embase
# Searches Results
1 *liver cell carcinoma/ 98835
2 (hepatoma* or ((hepatocellular* or ((adult or cell) adj2 liver)) adj5 (cancer* or tumo?r* or
neo?plas* or carcinom* or oncolog* or sarcom*))).ti. 94329
3 (hepatoma* or ((hepatocellular* or ((adult or cell) adj2 liver)) adj5 (cancer* or tumo?r* or
neo?plas* or carcinom* or oncolog* or sarcom*))).ab. /freq=2 36781
4 1 or 2 or 3 125636
5 sentinel surveillance/ 2432
6 health survey/ 194781
7 surveillance*.tw,kw. 255112
8 5 or 6 or 7 428509
9 4 and 8 3567
10 health program/ or program development/ or program evaluation/ 145965
11 reminder system/ 2647
12 ((telephone* or mail*) adj3 outreach*).tw,kw. 301
13 (train* or program*).tw,kw. 1734130
14 (remind* adj5 system*).tw,kw. 1823
15 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 1793477
16 9 and 15 699
17 (exp animal/ or exp juvenile animal/ or adult animal/ or animal cell/ or animal tissue/ or
nonhuman/ or animal experiment/ or animal model/) not human/ 6701568 18
(animal or animals or canine* or cat or cats or dog or dogs or feline or hamster* or lamb or lambs or mice or monkey or monkeys or mouse or murine or pig or pigs or piglet* or porcine or primate* or rabbit* or rats or rat or rodent* or sheep* or veterinar*).ti,kw,dq,jx. not (human*
or patient*).mp.
2094836
19 17 or 18 6775246
20 16 not 19 686
21 (exp child/ or exp adolescent/) not exp adult/ 2157285
22 (newborn* or new-born* or neonat* or neo-nat* or infan* or child* or adolesc* or paediatr* or pediatr* or baby* or babies* or toddler* or kid or kids or boy* or girl* or juvenile* or teen* or youth* or pubescen*).tw.
3011263
23 (pediatr* or paediatr*).jx. 678766
24 21 or 22 or 23 3590559
25 20 not 24 557
26 limit 25 to english language 526
27 remove duplicates from 26 519
Medline [OVID]
Database(s): Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
and Daily
1946 to Present# Searches Results
1 *carcinoma, hepatocellular/ 69421
2 (hepatoma* or ((hepatocellular* or ((adult or cell) adj2 liver)) adj5 (cancer* or tumo?r* or
neo?plas* or carcinom* or oncolog* or sarcom*))).ti. 70414
3 (hepatoma* or ((hepatocellular* or ((adult or cell) adj2 liver)) adj5 (cancer* or tumo?r* or
neo?plas* or carcinom* or oncolog* or sarcom*))).ab. /freq=2 27690
4 1 or 2 or 3 96955
5 exp Population Surveillance/ 69689
6 surveillance*.tw,kf. 184042
7 5 or 6 225419
8 Program Evaluation/ or Program Development/ 83746
9 Reminder System/ 3497
10 (remind* adj5 system*).tw,kf. 1313
11 ((telephone* or mail*) adj3 outreach*).tw,kf. 186
12 (train* or program*).tw,kf. 1329349
13 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 1364156
14 4 and 7 and 13 399
15 (exp Child/ or exp Infant/ or Adolescent/) not exp Adult/ 1888228
16 (newborn* or new-born* or neonat* or neo-nat* or infan* or child* or adolesc* or paediatr* or pediatr* or baby* or babies* or toddler* or kid or kids or boy* or girl* or juvenile* or teen* or
youth* or pubescen*).ti. 1509076
17 (pediatr* or paediatr*).jw. 575892
18 15 or 16 or 17 2471951
19 14 not 18 396
20 (Animals/ or Models, animal/ or Disease models, animal/) not Humans/ 4705336 21 ((animals or animal or canine* or cat or cats or dog or dogs or feline or hamster* or mice or
monkey or monkeys or mouse or murine or pig or pigs or piglet* or porcine or primate* or rabbit* or rats or rat or rodent* or sheep* or veterinar*) not (human* or patient*)).ti,kf,jw.
2386178
22 20 or 21 5122461
23 19 not 22 394
24 limit 23 to english language 369
25 remove duplicates from 24 366
26 ("23111632" or "32490319" or "24813175" or "26049705" or "28041651" or "23611607" or
"27476494" or "30070379").ui. 8
27 25 and 26 8
Duplication & Removal of Records
Duplicates were removed by using EndNote’s Author/Title/Year duplicate checker, followed by a manual verification of duplicates.
Additional Details Limits
Human
Adults
English Language