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Wackett J, Devaney B, Chau R, Ho J, King N, Grewal J, Armstrong J, Mitra B. Reported outcome measures in necrotising soft tissue infections: a systematic review. Appendix 1 - 3.

Appendix 1: A supporting document that outlines the search strategy employed in our OVID Medline search so that the search could be repeated and readers can better understand our search terms

  1. Fasciitis, Necrotizing/
  2. Fournier Gangrene/
  3. Gas Gangrene/
  4. Necrot?ing soft tissue infection*.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, organism supplementary concept word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms]
  5. Fasciitis, necrotic?ing.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, organism supplementary concept word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms]
  6. Fournier gangrene.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, organism supplementary concept word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms]
  7. Gas gangrene.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, floating sub-heading word, keyword heading word, organism supplementary concept word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier, synonyms]
  8. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7
  9. limit 8 to (English language and humans and last 10 years)

Appendix 2: A supporting document that provides references for the studies ultimately included by our review for data extraction

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Appendix 3: A supporting document that lists all outcome measures and their relative frequency that were identified by the study, having been stratified into groups based on their content. This list provides readers with a comprehensive account of outcomes currently being reported in NSTI research should they need it for further work

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