Guidelines for surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease

Appendices

Appendix 1: Medline Search Strategy

Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) (1950 to March Week 2 2008) Search Strategy:

• 1. Gastroesophageal Reflux/ (16387)

• 2. exp Surgical Procedures, Minimally invasive/ (190792)

• 3. Robotics/ (5031)

• 4. Fundoplication/ (2421)

• 5. (*Gastroesophageal Reflux/ or *Fundoplication/) and (2 or 3) (3359)

• 6. limit 5 to (comment or letter or news or newspaper article) (185)

• 7. 5 not 6 (3174)

• 8. limit 7 to english language (2522)

• 9. 8 and *Gastroesophageal Reflux/th, su (1104)

• 10. limit 9 to systematic reviews (46)

• 11. limit 9 to meta analysis (3)

• 12. limit 9 to randomized controlled trial (66)

• 13. limit 9 to evidence based medicine reviews (3)

• 14. 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 (112)

• 15. 9 not 14 (992)

• 16. 16 limit 15 to (clinical trial, phase i or clinical trial, phase ii or clinical trial, phase iii or clinical trial, phase iv or clinical trial or consensus development conference or consensus development conference, nih or controlled clinical trial or guideline or practice guideline) (59)

• 17. 17 15 not 16 (933)

• 18. 18 limit 17 to “review articles” (236)

• 19. 19 17 not 18 (699)

• 20. 20 (surg$ or endoscop$ or laparo$ or digest$ or gastro$ or gut).jw. (748495)

• 21. 21 19 and 20 (604)

• 22. 22 limit 21 to humans (586)

• 23. 23 limit 22 to yr=“2003–2008” (236)

Appendix 2

This document was prepared and revised by the SAGES Guidelines Committee:

Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD

WilliamW. Hope, MD

Geoffrey P. Kohn, MD

Patrick R. Reardon, MD

E. Matt Ritter, MD

Keith Gersin, MD

Thom E. Lobe, MD

Keith Apelgren, MD

Ziad Awad, MD

L. Michael Brunt, MD

Ronald Clements, MD

David Earle, MD

David Edelman, MD

Timothy Farrell, MD

Erika Fellinger, MD

Stephen Haggerty, MD

Jeffrey Hazey, MD

Steven Heneghan, MD

Gregory Kahn, MD

James Korndorffer, MD

Henry Lujan, MD

Lisa Martin Hawver, MD

Sumeet Mittal, MD

Jonathan Myers, MD

David Overby, MD

Jonathan Pearl, MD

Raymond Price, MD

William Reed, MD

David Renton, MD

John Roth, MD

Alan Saber, MD

Julio Teixeria, MD

Andrew Wright, MD

Marc Zerey, MD

William Richardson, MD, Co-Chair

Robert Fanelli, MD, Chair

It was reviewed and approved by the Board of Governors of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), February 2010.

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