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Table 1 Search strategies

From: An insight into the use of telemedicine technology for cancer patients during the Covid-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Database

Search strategy

Number of records

Web Of Science

(TI=(( ( ( “Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation” ) AND ( “cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology” ) AND ( “Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” ) ) ) )) OR AB=(( ( ( “Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation” ) AND ( “cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology” ) AND ( “Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” ) ) ) ) and 2020 or 2021 or 2022 (Publication Years) and English (Languages)

563

PubMed

((“Telemedicine“[MeSH Terms] OR “mhealth“[Title/Abstract] OR “Telehealth“[Title/Abstract] OR “telerehabilitation“[MeSH Terms]) AND (“cancer“[Title/Abstract] OR “medical oncology“[MeSH Terms] OR “tumor“[Title/Abstract]) AND (“Covid-19“[MeSH Terms] OR “coronavirus“[MeSH Terms] OR “SARS-COV-2“[MeSH Terms] OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2“[Title/Abstract])) AND ((2020:2022[pdat]) AND (english[Filter]))

569

Scopus

TITLE-ABS( ( ( “Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation” ) AND ( “cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology” ) AND ( “Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” ) ) ) AND PUBYEAR > 2019 AND PUBYEAR < 2023 AND ( LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE,“English” ) )

565

Embase

(‘telemedicine’:ab, ti OR ‘mhealth’:ab, ti OR ‘telehealth’:ab, ti OR ‘telerehabilitation’:ab, ti) AND (‘cancer’:ab, ti OR ‘tumor’:ab, ti OR ‘neoplasm’:ab, ti OR ‘medical oncology’:ab, ti) AND (‘Covid-19’:ab, ti OR ‘coronavirus’:ab, ti OR ‘sars-cov-2’:ab, ti OR ‘sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2’:ab, ti) AND [english]/lim AND [2020–2022]/py

974

Ovid

Medline

((“Telemedicine” or “mhealth” or “Telehealth” or “telerehabilitation”) and (“cancer” or “tumor” or “neoplasm” or “medical oncology”) and (“Covid-19” or “coronavirus” or “SARS-COV-2” or “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”)).ti. or ((“Telemedicine” or “mhealth” or “Telehealth” or “telerehabilitation”) and (“cancer” or “tumor” or “neoplasm” or “medical oncology”) and (“Covid-19” or “coronavirus” or “SARS-COV-2” or “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”)).ab.

Language: English

Publication Date: 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-30

522

IEEE Xplore

(“Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”)

4

Cochrane library

42 Trials matching (“Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”) in Record Title OR (“Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”) in Abstract - (Word variations have been searched)

42

ProQuest

abstract(((“Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”))) OR title(((“Telemedicine” OR “mhealth” OR “Telehealth” OR “telerehabilitation”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasm” OR “medical oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “coronavirus” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “Sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”)))Limits applied

Databases:

• Coronavirus Research Database

• Publicly Available Content Database

These databases are searched for part of your query.

Narrowed by:

Entered date:  2020–2022;

Language: English

149

Google Scholar

allintitle: (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “oncology”) AND (“Covid-19” OR “SARS-COV-2” OR “coronavirus”) AND (“Telemedicine” OR “Telehealth” OR “Telecare” OR “telerehabilitation”) (2020–2022)

113