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Methods.
Literature search.
We performed a search in the PubMed database from January 2008 until January
2015. The following search terms were used and included controlled terms from 2 MeSH as well as free text terms. The references of the identified articles were
searched for in relevant publications.
“slipped capital femoral epiphyses” [MeSH Terms] OR (“slipped” [tiab] AND “capital” [tiab] AND “femoral” [tiab] AND epiphys* [tiab]) OR (slipped [tiab] AND upper [tiab] AND (“femur” [MeSH Terms] OR “femur” [tiab] OR “femoral” [tiab]) AND (“epiphyses” [MeSH Terms] OR epiphys* [tiab])) OR scfe [tiab] OR sufe [tiab] OR (“slipped” [ot] AND “capital” [ot] AND “femoral” [ot] AND epiphys* [ot]) OR (slipped [ot] AND upper [ot] AND (“femur” [MeSH Terms] OR “femur” [ot] OR “femoral” [ot]) AND (“epiphyses” [MeSH Terms] OR epiphys* [ot])) OR scfe [ot] OR sufe [ot] AND (“2008/01/01” [PDAT ] : “2015/01/01” [PDAT ])
Selection Phase.
Two independent researchers screened all titles of the abstracts to determine eligibility. If necessary, the full text of an article was also checked for the eligibility criteria. Differences in opinion were resolved by consensus procedure. Exclusion criteria were: articles not related to children or adolescents, publication types like case reports, conference abstracts and articles discussing complications in later life. Articles other than those written in English, Dutch or German were also excluded. Full texts of articles were obtained for further review.
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