Table 1.
Search strategy
| Strategy component and step no. | Query |
|---|---|
| PubMed and Cochrane database | |
| Patient | |
| 1 | Hyperparathyroidism OR parathyroid OR HPT OR PHPT |
| 2 | MeSH descriptor hyperparathyroidism explode all trees |
| Intervention | |
| 3 | PET OR “Positron Emission Tomography” |
| 4 | MeSH descriptor Tomography, Emission-Computed explode all trees |
| Embase | |
| Patient | |
| 1 | Hyperparathyroidism OR parathyroid OR HPT OR PHPT |
| 2 | EMTREE hyperparathyroidism explosion |
| Intervention | |
| 3 | PET OR “Positron Emission Tomography” |
| 4 | EMTREE positron emission tomography explosion |
| Merge | |
| 5 | 1 OR 2 |
| 6 | 3 OR 4 |
| 7 | 5 AND 6 |