Incremental contribution of non-DEHM search terms: numbers of abstracts not identified by the DEHM group† (and estimates of numbers potentially pertinent to occupational aetiology)
| PubMed query | PubMed query translation (automatic term mapping) | Proportion (%, n/N) of the abstracts retrieved by the search term (N) which were not retrieved by the DEHM group (n)‡ | Estimated proportion of potentially pertinent additional abstracts (%)§ | Estimated absolute numbers of potentially pertinent additional abstracts¶ |
| occupational hazard[Text Word] | occupational hazard[Text Word] | 32% (172/531) | 77 | 132 |
| industry[MeSH Terms] mortality [Subheading] | ‘industry’[MeSH Terms] AND ‘mortality’[Subheading] | 32% (508/1585) | 74 | 376 |
| occupational risk[Text Word] | occupational risk[Text Word] | 21% (258/1207) | 73 | 188 |
| occupational group*[Text Word] | From occupational group[Text Word] …to… occupational groups[Text Word] | 46% (764/1670) | 52 | 397 |
| work-related | work-related[All Fields] | 42% (2266/5407) | 46 | 1042 |
| occupational air pollutants[MeSH Terms] | ‘air pollutants, occupational’[MeSH Terms] | 33% (2316/6942) | 45 | 1042 |
| working environment[Text Word] | working environment[Text Word] | 50% (647/1308) | 41 | 265 |
| at work[Text Word] | at work[Text Word] | 68% (4521/6642) | 36 | 1628 |
| work environment[Text Word] | work environment[Text Word] | 55% (1547/2834) | 33 | 511 |
| occupations[MeSH Terms] | occupations[MeSH Terms] | 78% (8247/10521) | 32 | 2639 |
| work[MeSH Terms] | work[MeSH Terms] | 76% (3519/4642) | 31 | 1091 |
| workplace* | From workplace[All Fields] …to… OR workplacetraumacenter[All Fields] | 50% (7621/15315) | 28 | 2134 |
| Workload | Workload[MeSH Terms] OR workload[All Fields] | 90% (12351/13728) | 27 | 3335 |
| occupation* | From occupation[All Fields] …to… occupationwise[All Fields] | 46% (55339/119619) | 25 | 13835 |
| worke* | From worke[All Fields] …to… workey[All Fields] | 66% (59185/90267) | 20 | 11837 |
| work place*[Text Word] | work place[Text Word] OR work placement[Text Word] OR work placements[Text Word] OR work places[Text Word] | 58% (685/1196) | 19 | 130 |
| work site*[Text Word] | work site[Text Word] OR work sites[Text Word] OR work sitewide[Text Word] | 45% (340/758) | 15 | 51 |
| job*[Text Word] | From job[Text Word] …to… jobwatch[Text Word] | 79% (24348/30715) | 14 | 3409 |
| occupational groups[MeSH Terms] | ‘occupational groups’[MeSH Terms] | 94% (108099/115419) | 9 | 9729 |
| employment | ‘employment’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘employment’[All Fields] | 83% (32187/38636) | 9 | 2897 |
| worksite* | From worksite[All Fields] …to… worksitewide[All Fields] | 39% (575/1469) | 6 | 34 |
| industry | ‘industry’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘industry’[All Fields] | 86% (91082/105760) | 4 | 3643 |
In occupation* and worke*, the asterisk represents the PubMed truncation symbol. MeSH, Medical Subject Heading.
↵† DEHM group: (occupational diseases OR occupational exposure OR occupational medicine OR occupational health) entered using the search field [MeSH Terms OR Text Word].
↵‡ Calculated as: ((total number identified by the non-DEHM term)−(number also identified by the DEHM group))/(total number identified by the non-DEHM term).
↵§ Estimates were based on reviews of 100 randomly sampled abstracts.
↵¶ Calculated by multiplying the number of abstracts additionally identified (ie, n in column 2) by the estimated proportion of potentially pertinent additional abstracts (column 3).