Designing drug regimens for special intensive care unit populations

Table 1 Results of search strategies for randomized controlled trials

	Number of citations
MEDLINE
Initial search strategy as described in text	5316
Search strategy limited to “clinical trial” and “humans”	726
Of the 725 citations, the number of RCTs with clinically relevant endpoints	0
MEDLINE
Focused search strategy as described in text	2586
Search strategy limited to “clinical trial” and “human”	176
Of the 176 citations, the number of RCTs with clinically relevant endpoints	0
EMBASE
Initial search strategy as described in text limited to terms indexed as major focus	1898
Search strategy limited to “human” or “clinical trial”	1431
Search strategy limited to “article”	870
Of the 871 citations, the number of RCTs with clinically relevant endpoints	0

RCT: Randomized controlled trial.