Seeing the unseen: The low treatment rate of eye emergencies in Africa

Table 1 Summary of search strategy including search component and keywords used

Search component	Keywords/terms used
Ocular	“ocular”[All Fields] OR “oculars”[All Fields]
Emergency	“emerge”[All Fields] OR “emerged”[All Fields] OR “emergence”[All Fields] OR “emergences”[All Fields] OR “emergencies”[MeSH Terms] OR “emergencies”[All Fields] OR “emergency”[All Fields] OR “emergent”[All Fields] OR “emergently”[All Fields] OR “emergents”[All Fields] OR “emerges”[All Fields] OR “emerging”[All Fields]
Africa	“africa”[MeSH Terms] OR “africa”[All Fields] OR “africa s”[All Fields] OR “africas”[All Fields]
Date range	2014: 2024[pdat]
Language, full text, relevance	Records filtered to exclude non-English language, no full text, and non-relevant articles.