Supplemental Digital Content 1: Search Strategies
Embase 1626
Medline 1283
SPORTDiscus 368
Subtotal 3277
-Duplicates 659
Total 2689
Database: Embase <1974 to 2020 April 02>
EMBASE
1 exp glucocorticoids/ (699829) 2 Glucocorticoid*.mp. (132888)
3 Prednisolone/ or prednisone/ (279553) 4 (prednisolone or prednisone).mp. (295977) 5 Betamethasone/ or budesonide/ (36589) 6 (betamethasone or budesonide).mp. (44907) 7 Dexamethasone/ or deflazacort/ (149087) 8 (dexamethasone or deflazacort).mp. (163381) 9 Methylprednisolone/ (93036)
10 Methylprednisolone.mp. (103223) 11 Hydrocortisone/ or cortisone/ (130829) 12 (hydrocortisone or cortisone).mp. (146190) 13 Fluticasone/ or triamcinolone/ (21381) 14 (fluticasone or triamcinolone).mp. (45487) 15 or/1-14 (751320)
16 exp DOPING IN SPORTS/ or exp ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE/ (21390) 17 (ergogen* or athletic performance or exercise performance or power or athletes or endurance or aerobic capacity or doping).mp. (497278)
18 16 or 17 (497278) 19 15 and 18 (6298)
20 crossover-procedure/ or double-blind procedure/ or randomized controlled trial/ or single- blind procedure/ or (random* or factorial* or crossover* or cross over* or placebo* or (doubl*
adj blind*) or (singl* adj blind*) or assign* or allocat* or volunteer*).tw. (2303691) 21 19 and 20 (1626)
MEDLINE
Database: OVID Medline Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE(R) Daily and Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to Present
Search Strategy:
--- 1 exp glucocorticoids/ (190502)
2 Glucocorticoid*.mp. (110802) 3 Prednisolone/ or prednisone/ (70071)
4 (prednisolone or prednisone).mp. (95089) 5 Betamethasone/ or budesonide/ (10257) 6 (betamethasone or budesonide).mp. (13846) 7 Dexamethasone/ or deflazacort/ (50886) 8 (dexamethasone or deflazacort).mp. (71439) 9 Methylprednisolone/ (18751)
10 Methylprednisolone.mp. (26220) 11 Hydrocortisone/ or cortisone/ (88534) 12 (hydrocortisone or cortisone).mp. (96826) 13 Fluticasone/ or triamcinolone/ (6602) 14 (fluticasone or triamcinolone).mp. (16026) 15 or/1-14 (350672)
16 exp DOPING IN SPORTS/ or exp ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE/ (57392) 17 (ergogen* or athletic performance or exercise performance or power or athletes or endurance or aerobic capacity or doping).mp. (433528)
18 16 or 17 (454463) 19 15 and 18 (2814)
20 ((randomized controlled trial or controlled clinical trial).pt. or randomized.ab. or
randomised.ab. or placebo.ab. or drug therapy.fs. or randomly.ab. or trial.ab. or groups.ab.) not (exp animals/ not humans.sh.) (4062840)
21 19 and 20 (1283)
SPORTDiscus
S8 S3 AND S7 368
S7 S4 OR S5 OR S6 111,680
S6
DE "PHYSICAL fitness" OR DE
"CARDIOPULMONARY fitness" OR DE "CARDIOVASCULAR fitness" OR DE "EXERCISE tolerance" OR DE
"MUSCLE strength" 99,810
S5
DE "ERGOGENIC aids" OR DE
"PERFORMANCE-enhancing drugs" 3,269 S4 DE "DOPING in sports" 10,000
S3 S1 OR S2 4,238
S2
prednisolone OR prednisone OR
dexamethasone OR methylprednisolone OR hydrocortisone OR cortisone OR betamethasone OR budesonide OR deflazacort OR fluticasone OR
triamcinolone 3,753
S1
DE "GLUCOCORTICOIDS" OR DE
"CORTICOSTERONE" OR DE
"HYDROCORTISONE" 2,889
