EMBASE—search strategy: first search with filter ‘Controlled Clinical Trial/Randomized Controlled Trial’ and ‘1990/01/01 to 2019/12/31’
| Search | Query |
| 1 | ‘urinary tract infection’/exp OR (urinary AND tract AND infection*) OR ‘urinary tract infection’ |
| 2 | uti |
| 3 | ‘bacteriuria’/exp OR bacteriuria |
| 4 | ‘pyuria’/exp OR pyuria |
| 5 | ‘cystitis’/exp OR cystitis |
| 6 | ‘pyelonephritis’/exp OR pyelonephritis |
| 7 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 |
| 8 | antiinfective agent’/exp OR (‘anti-bacterial’ AND agent*) |
| 9 | ‘antibiotic agent’/exp OR ‘antibiotic*’ |
| 10 | ‘anti-microbial’ OR (anti AND microbial) |
| 11 | #8 OR #9 OR #10 |
| 12 | #7 AND #11 |
| 13 | #12 AND (‘controlled clinical trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial (topic)’/de) |
| 14 | #12 AND (‘controlled clinical trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial (topic)’/de) AND(1990–2019)/py |
| 15 | #12 AND (‘controlled clinical trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial (topic)’/de) AND(1990–2019)/py AND (embase)/lim |
| 16 | #12 AND (‘controlled clinical trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial’/de OR ‘randomized controlled trial (topic)’/de) AND(1990–2019)/py AND (medline)/lim |
| 17 | #14 NOT #16 |