Pilot search strategy
| Database | Search term 1 | Search term 2 | Filter | Number of articles retrieved |
| Medline | MesH: Program evaluation [mh] OR Process assessment (healthcare) [mh] OR Outcome assessment (healthcare) [mh] OR Title/Abstract/Keywords: ‘Process Evaluation’ OR ‘Programme Evaluation’ OR ‘Program Evaluation’ OR ‘Process assessment’ OR Fidelity. | MeSH: Musculoskeletal Diseases [∗diagnosis; *rehabilitation; ∗therapy]; OR Osteoarthritis [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy]; OR Shoulder Pain [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy] OR Back pain [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy] OR Neck pain [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy] OR musculoskeletal pain [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy] OR Arthritis [diagnosis; *rehabilitation; therapy]. | Age>18 years Humans Study design: clinical trial (All phases); OR randomized controlled trials; Clinical trials OR qualitative studies. | 218 |
| Scopus | Search in title, abstract, keywords: ‘Program evaluation’ OR ‘Process Evaluation’ OR ‘Programme Evaluation’ OR ‘Process assessment’ OR Fidelity. | Search in title, abstract, keywords: Musculoskeletal OR Osteoarthritis OR ‘Shoulder Pain’ OR ‘Back pain’ OR ‘Neck pain’ OR ‘Knee pain’ OR Arthritis. | NOT: (surger*(title, abstract, keywords) OR protocol (title)) Limits: Document type, article; Keyword, Human and humans; Source type, Journals. | 756 |
| CINAHL | MeSH: Program evaluation [mh] OR Process assessment (healthcare) [mh] OR Outcome assessment [mh] OR Title/abstract: ‘Process Evaluation’ OR ‘Programme Evaluation’ OR ‘Program Evaluation’ OR ‘Process assessment’ OR ’Fidelity'. | MeSH: (MH ‘Musculoskeletal Diseases’) OR (MH ‘Musculoskeletal Abnormalities’) OR (MH ‘Diagnosis, musculoskeletal’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis, Spine’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis, Wrist’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis, Knee’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis, Hip’) OR (MH ‘Osteoarthritis, Cervical’) OR (MH ‘Low Back Pain’) OR (MH ‘Back Pain’) OR (MH ‘Neck Pain’) OR (MH ‘Chronic Pain’) OR (MH ‘Shoulder Pain’) OR (MH ‘Nociceptive Pain’) OR (MH ‘Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome’) Keywords: Musculoskeletal | Limiters: All adults AND humans AND [therapy(best balance between sensitivity and specificity) OR qualitative(best balance between sensitivity and specificity)] | 341 |
| PsycINFO | Subject heading search: Program evaluation Title, abstract, Keyword: ‘Program evaluation’ OR fidelity OR ‘process assessment’ OR ‘process evaluation’ OR ‘process assessment’ OR programme evaluation | Subject heading: Musculoskeletal disorders OR back pain OR pain OR chronic pain OR arthritis Title, abstract, keywords: neck pain OR musculoskeletal pain OR osteoarthritis OR shoulder pain OR ‘knee pain’ | Limits: ((‘therapy (maximizes sensitivity)’ or ‘qualitative (maximizes sensitivity)") and adulthood<18+ years>and human) | 85 |
| Embase | Emtree search: program evaluation. Keyword: process evaluation, process assessment, fidelity, programme evaluation, Title and abstract: ‘process evaluation’, ‘process assessment’, fidelity, ‘programme evaluation’, ‘program evaluation’. | Emtree search [Diagnosis, Rehabilitation, Therapy]: arthritis OR musculoskeletal pain OR Musculoskeletal disease OR neck pain OR backache OR shoulder pain OR osteoarthritis | Limits: humans AND adults. Additional limits: qualitative study to maximize specificity OR clinical trials (all phases) OR RCTs OR controlled clinical trials. | 25 |
| Web of Science | ‘Program evaluation’ OR ‘Process Evaluation’ OR ‘Programme Evaluation’ OR ‘Process assessment’ OR Fidelity | Musculoskeletal OR Osteoarthritis OR ‘Shoulder Pain’ OR ‘Back pain’ OR ‘Neck pain’ OR ‘Knee pain’ OR musculoskeletal OR Arthritis | 270 | |
| Total | 1695 | |||