LMIC Filters July 2012 v.1
LMIC Filters July 2012 v.1
LMIC Filters July 2012 v.1
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (Cochrane Library Online)
#1 (Africa or Asia or Caribbean or "West Indies" or "South America" or "Latin America" or "Central
America"):ti,ab,kw
#2 (Afghanistan or Albania or Algeria or Angola or Antigua or Barbuda or Argentina or Armenia or
Armenian or Aruba or Azerbaijan or Bahrain or Bangladesh or Barbados or Benin or Byelarus or
Byelorussian or Belarus or Belorussian or Belorussia or Belize or Bhutan or Bolivia or Bosnia or
Herzegovina or Hercegovina or Botswana or Brasil or Brazil or Bulgaria or "Burkina Faso" or "Burkina
Fasso" or "Upper Volta" or Burundi or Urundi or Cambodia or "Khmer Republic" or Kampuchea or
Cameroon or Cameroons or Cameron or Camerons or "Cape Verde" or "Central African Republic" or
Chad or Chile or China or Colombia or Comoros or "Comoro Islands" or Comores or Mayotte or Congo
or Zaire or "Costa Rica" or "Cote d'Ivoire" or "Ivory Coast" or Croatia or Cuba or Cyprus or
Czechoslovakia or "Czech Republic" or Slovakia or "Slovak Republic"):ti,ab,kw
#3 (Djibouti or "French Somaliland" or Dominica or "Dominican Republic" or "East Timor" or "East
Timur" or "Timor Leste" or Ecuador or Egypt or "United Arab Republic" or "El Salvador" or Eritrea or
Estonia or Ethiopia or Fiji or Gabon or "Gabonese Republic" or Gambia or Gaza or Georgia or
Georgian or Ghana or "Gold Coast" or Greece or Grenada or Guatemala or Guinea or Guam or Guiana
or Guyana or Haiti or Honduras or Hungary or India or Maldives or Indonesia or Iran or Iraq or "Isle of
Man" or Jamaica or Jordan or Kazakhstan or Kazakh or Kenya or Kiribati or Korea or Kosovo or
Kyrgyzstan or Kirghizia or "Kyrgyz Republic" or Kirghiz or Kirgizstan or "Lao PDR" or Laos or Latvia
or Lebanon or Lesotho or Basutoland or Liberia or Libya or Lithuania):ti,ab,kw
#4 (Macedonia or Madagascar or "Malagasy Republic" or Malaysia or Malaya or Malay or Sabah or
Sarawak or Malawi or Nyasaland or Mali or Malta or "Marshall Islands" or Mauritania or Mauritius or
"Agalega Islands" or Mexico or Micronesia or "Middle East" or Moldova or Moldovia or Moldovian or
Mongolia or Montenegro or Morocco or Ifni or Mozambique or Myanmar or Myanma or Burma or
Namibia or Nepal or "Netherlands Antilles" or "New Caledonia" or Nicaragua or Niger or Nigeria or
"Northern Mariana Islands" or Oman or Muscat or Pakistan or Palau or Palestine or Panama or
Paraguay or Peru or Philippines or Philipines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Poland or Portugal or
"Puerto Rico"):ti,ab,kw
#5 (Romania or Rumania or Roumania or Russia or Russian or Rwanda or Ruanda or "Saint Kitts" or "St
Kitts" or Nevis or "Saint Lucia" or "St Lucia" or "Saint Vincent" or "St Vincent" or Grenadines or
Samoa or "Samoan Islands" or "Navigator Island" or "Navigator Islands" or "Sao Tome" or "Saudi
Arabia" or Senegal or Serbia or Montenegro or Seychelles or "Sierra Leone" or Slovenia or "Sri Lanka"
or Ceylon or "Solomon Islands" or Somalia or Sudan or Suriname or Surinam or Swaziland or Syria or
Tajikistan or Tadzhikistan or Tadjikistan or Tadzhik or Tanzania or Thailand or Togo or "Togolese
Republic" or Tonga or Trinidad or Tobago or Tunisia or Turkey or Turkmenistan or Turkmen or Uganda
or Ukraine or Uruguay or USSR or "Soviet Union" or "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" or
LMIC Filters July 2012
Uzbekistan or Uzbek or Vanuatu or "New Hebrides" or Venezuela or Vietnam or "Viet Nam" or "West
Bank" or Yemen or Yugoslavia or Zambia or Zimbabwe or Rhodesia):ti,ab,kw
#6 (developing or less* NEXT developed or "under developed" or underdeveloped or "middle income" or
low* NEXT income or underserved or "under served" or deprived or poor*) NEXT (countr* or nation*
or population* or world):ti,ab,kw
#7 (developing or less* NEXT developed or "under developed" or underdeveloped or "middle income" or
low* NEXT income) NEXT (economy or economies):ti,ab,kw
#8 low* NEXT (gdp or gnp or "gross domestic" or "gross national"):ti,ab,kw
#9 (low NEAR/3 middle NEAR/3 countr*):ti,ab,kw
#10 (lmic or lmics or "third world" or "lami country" or "lami countries"):ti,ab,kw
#11 ("transitional country" or "transitional countries"):ti,ab,kw
#12 (#1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11)
EMBASE (Ovid)
1. Developing Country.sh.
2. (Africa or Asia or Caribbean or West Indies or South America or Latin America or Central
America).hw,ti,ab,cp.
3. (Afghanistan or Albania or Algeria or Angola or Antigua or Barbuda or Argentina or Armenia or Armenian or
Aruba or Azerbaijan or Bahrain or Bangladesh or Barbados or Benin or Byelarus or Byelorussian or Belarus or
Belorussian or Belorussia or Belize or Bhutan or Bolivia or Bosnia or Herzegovina or Hercegovina or Botswana
or Brasil or Brazil or Bulgaria or Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta or Burundi or Urundi or
Cambodia or Khmer Republic or Kampuchea or Cameroon or Cameroons or Cameron or Camerons or Cape
Verde or Central African Republic or Chad or Chile or China or Colombia or Comoros or Comoro Islands or
Comores or Mayotte or Congo or Zaire or Costa Rica or Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast or Croatia or Cuba or
Cyprus or Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic or Slovakia or Slovak Republic or Djibouti or French Somaliland
or Dominica or Dominican Republic or East Timor or East Timur or Timor Leste or Ecuador or Egypt or United
Arab Republic or El Salvador or Eritrea or Estonia or Ethiopia or Fiji or Gabon or Gabonese Republic or Gambia
or Gaza or Georgia Republic or Georgian Republic or Ghana or Gold Coast or Greece or Grenada or Guatemala
or Guinea or Guam or Guiana or Guyana or Haiti or Honduras or Hungary or India or Maldives or Indonesia or
Iran or Iraq or Isle of Man or Jamaica or Jordan or Kazakhstan or Kazakh or Kenya or Kiribati or Korea or
Kosovo or Kyrgyzstan or Kirghizia or Kyrgyz Republic or Kirghiz or Kirgizstan or Lao PDR or Laos or Latvia
or Lebanon or Lesotho or Basutoland or Liberia or Libya or Lithuania or Macedonia or Madagascar or Malagasy
Republic or Malaysia or Malaya or Malay or Sabah or Sarawak or Malawi or Nyasaland or Mali or Malta or
Marshall Islands or Mauritania or Mauritius or Agalega Islands or Mexico or Micronesia or Middle East or
Moldova or Moldovia or Moldovian or Mongolia or Montenegro or Morocco or Ifni or Mozambique or
Myanmar or Myanma or Burma or Namibia or Nepal or Netherlands Antilles or New Caledonia or Nicaragua or
Niger or Nigeria or Northern Mariana Islands or Oman or Muscat or Pakistan or Palau or Palestine or Panama or
Paraguay or Peru or Philippines or Philipines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Poland or Portugal or Puerto Rico
or Romania or Rumania or Roumania or Russia or Russian or Rwanda or Ruanda or Saint Kitts or St Kitts or
LMIC Filters July 2012
Nevis or Saint Lucia or St Lucia or Saint Vincent or St Vincent or Grenadines or Samoa or Samoan Islands or
Navigator Island or Navigator Islands or Sao Tome or Saudi Arabia or Senegal or Serbia or Montenegro or
Seychelles or Sierra Leone or Slovenia or Sri Lanka or Ceylon or Solomon Islands or Somalia or South Africa or
Sudan or Suriname or Surinam or Swaziland or Syria or Tajikistan or Tadzhikistan or Tadjikistan or Tadzhik or
Tanzania or Thailand or Togo or Togolese Republic or Tonga or Trinidad or Tobago or Tunisia or Turkey or
Turkmenistan or Turkmen or Uganda or Ukraine or Uruguay or USSR or Soviet Union or Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics or Uzbekistan or Uzbek or Vanuatu or New Hebrides or Venezuela or Vietnam or Viet Nam
or West Bank or Yemen or Yugoslavia or Zambia or Zimbabwe or Rhodesia).hw,ti,ab,cp.
4. ((developing or less* developed or under developed or underdeveloped or middle income or low* income or
underserved or under served or deprived or poor*) adj (countr* or nation? or population? or world)).ti,ab.
5. ((developing or less* developed or under developed or underdeveloped or middle income or low* income) adj
(economy or economies)).ti,ab.
6. (low* adj (gdp or gnp or gross domestic or gross national)).ti,ab.
7. (low adj3 middle adj3 countr*).ti,ab.
8. (lmic or lmics or third world or lami countr*).ti,ab.
9. transitional countr*.ti,ab.
10. or/1-9
MEDLINE (Ovid)
1. Developing Countries.sh,kf.
2. (Africa or Asia or Caribbean or West Indies or South America or Latin America or Central
America).hw,kf,ti,ab,cp.
3. (Afghanistan or Albania or Algeria or Angola or Antigua or Barbuda or Argentina or Armenia or Armenian or
Aruba or Azerbaijan or Bahrain or Bangladesh or Barbados or Benin or Byelarus or Byelorussian or Belarus or
Belorussian or Belorussia or Belize or Bhutan or Bolivia or Bosnia or Herzegovina or Hercegovina or Botswana
or Brasil or Brazil or Bulgaria or Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta or Burundi or Urundi or
Cambodia or Khmer Republic or Kampuchea or Cameroon or Cameroons or Cameron or Camerons or Cape
Verde or Central African Republic or Chad or Chile or China or Colombia or Comoros or Comoro Islands or
Comores or Mayotte or Congo or Zaire or Costa Rica or Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast or Croatia or Cuba or
Cyprus or Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic or Slovakia or Slovak Republic or Djibouti or French Somaliland
or Dominica or Dominican Republic or East Timor or East Timur or Timor Leste or Ecuador or Egypt or United
Arab Republic or El Salvador or Eritrea or Estonia or Ethiopia or Fiji or Gabon or Gabonese Republic or Gambia
or Gaza or Georgia Republic or Georgian Republic or Ghana or Gold Coast or Greece or Grenada or Guatemala
or Guinea or Guam or Guiana or Guyana or Haiti or Honduras or Hungary or India or Maldives or Indonesia or
Iran or Iraq or Isle of Man or Jamaica or Jordan or Kazakhstan or Kazakh or Kenya or Kiribati or Korea or
Kosovo or Kyrgyzstan or Kirghizia or Kyrgyz Republic or Kirghiz or Kirgizstan or Lao PDR or Laos or Latvia
or Lebanon or Lesotho or Basutoland or Liberia or Libya or Lithuania or Macedonia or Madagascar or Malagasy
Republic or Malaysia or Malaya or Malay or Sabah or Sarawak or Malawi or Nyasaland or Mali or Malta or
Marshall Islands or Mauritania or Mauritius or Agalega Islands or Mexico or Micronesia or Middle East or
LMIC Filters July 2012
PubMed Filter 1
(Searches the following fields: title, abstract, other abstract, MeSH, other terms, place of publication)
#10 Search #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9
#9 Search "developing country"[tiab] OR "developing countries"[tiab] OR "developing nation"[tiab] OR
"developing nations"[tiab] OR "developing population"[tiab] OR "developing populations"[tiab] OR
"developing world"[tiab] OR "less developed country"[tiab] OR "less developed countries"[tiab] OR "less
developed nation"[tiab] OR "less developed nations"[tiab] OR "less developed population"[tiab] OR "less
developed populations"[tiab] OR "less developed world"[tiab] OR "lesser developed country"[tiab] OR "lesser
developed countries"[tiab] OR "lesser developed nation"[tiab] OR "lesser developed nations"[tiab] OR "lesser
developed population"[tiab] OR "lesser developed populations"[tiab] OR "lesser developed world"[tiab] OR
"under developed country"[tiab] OR "under developed countries"[tiab] OR "under developed nation"[tiab] OR
"under developed nations"[tiab] OR "under developed population"[tiab] OR "under developed populations"[tiab]
OR "under developed world"[tiab] OR "underdeveloped country"[tiab] OR "underdeveloped countries"[tiab] OR
"underdeveloped nation"[tiab] OR "underdeveloped nations"[tiab] OR "underdeveloped population"[tiab] OR
"underdeveloped populations"[tiab] OR "underdeveloped world"[tiab] OR "middle income country"[tiab] OR
"middle income countries"[tiab] OR "middle income nation"[tiab] OR "middle income nations"[tiab] OR
LMIC Filters July 2012
PubMed Filter 2
(Searches the following fields: title, abstract, other abstract, MeSH, other terms, but NOT place of publication)
#5 Search #1 or #2 or #3 or #4
#4 Search "developing country"[tw] OR "developing countries"[tw] OR "developing nation"[tw] OR
"developing nations"[tw] OR "developing population"[tw] OR "developing populations"[tw] OR "developing
world"[tw] OR "less developed country"[tw] OR "less developed countries"[tw] OR "less developed nation"[tw]
OR "less developed nations"[tw] OR "less developed population"[tw] OR "less developed populations"[tw] OR
"less developed world"[tw] OR "lesser developed country"[tw] OR "lesser developed countries"[tw] OR "lesser
developed nation"[tw] OR "lesser developed nations"[tw] OR "lesser developed population"[tw] OR "lesser
developed populations"[tw] OR "lesser developed world"[tw] OR "under developed country"[tw] OR "under
developed countries"[tw] OR "under developed nation"[tw] OR "under developed nations"[tw] OR "under
developed population"[tw] OR "under developed populations"[tw] OR "under developed world"[tw] OR
"underdeveloped country"[tw] OR "underdeveloped countries"[tw] OR "underdeveloped nation"[tw] OR
"underdeveloped nations"[tw] OR "underdeveloped population"[tw] OR "underdeveloped populations"[tw] OR
"underdeveloped world"[tw] OR "middle income country"[tw] OR "middle income countries"[tw] OR "middle
income nation"[tw] OR "middle income nations"[tw] OR "middle income population"[tw] OR "middle income
populations"[tw] OR "low income country"[tw] OR "low income countries"[tw] OR "low income nation"[tw]
OR "low income nations"[tw] OR "low income population"[tw] OR "low income populations"[tw] OR "lower
income country"[tw] OR "lower income countries"[tw] OR "lower income nation"[tw] OR "lower income
nations"[tw] OR "lower income population"[tw] OR "lower income populations"[tw] OR "underserved
country"[tw] OR "underserved countries"[tw] OR "underserved nation"[tw] OR "underserved nations"[tw] OR
"underserved population"[tw] OR "underserved populations"[tw] OR "underserved world"[tw] OR "under served
country"[tw] OR "under served countries"[tw] OR "under served nation"[tw] OR "under served nations"[tw] OR
"under served population"[tw] OR "under served populations"[tw] OR "under served world"[tw] OR "deprived
country"[tw] OR "deprived countries"[tw] OR "deprived nation"[tw] OR "deprived nations"[tw] OR "deprived
population"[tw] OR "deprived populations"[tw] OR "deprived world"[tw] OR "poor country"[tw] OR "poor
countries"[tw] OR "poor nation"[tw] OR "poor nations"[tw] OR "poor population"[tw] OR "poor
populations"[tw] OR "poor world"[tw] OR "poorer country"[tw] OR "poorer countries"[tw] OR "poorer
nation"[tw] OR "poorer nations"[tw] OR "poorer population"[tw] OR "poorer populations"[tw] OR "poorer
world"[tw] OR "developing economy"[tw] OR "developing economies"[tw] OR "less developed economy"[tw]
OR "less developed economies"[tw] OR "lesser developed economy"[tw] OR "lesser developed economies"[tw]
OR "under developed economy"[tw] OR "under developed economies"[tw] OR "underdeveloped economy"[tw]
OR "underdeveloped economies"[tw] OR "middle income economy"[tw] OR "middle income economies"[tw]
OR "low income economy"[tw] OR "low income economies"[tw] OR "lower income economy"[tw] OR "lower
income economies"[tw] OR "low gdp"[tw] OR "low gnp"[tw] OR "low gross domestic"[tw] OR "low gross
national"[tw] OR "lower gdp"[tw] OR "lower gnp"[tw] OR "lower gross domestic"[tw] OR "lower gross
LMIC Filters July 2012