Ocular gene transfer in the spotlight: implications of newspaper content for clinical communications

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 1 Search algorithms for ocular gene transfer newspaper articles in Factiva and Canadian Newsstand

Country	Search strategy^a	Number of articles	Number of articles on retinopathies for analysis
United States	At least one of these words: blind* ocular ophtha* vision sight retin* eye	1339	55
United States	This exact phrase: gene therapy	1339	55
Canada	TITLE (blind* OR ocular OR ophtha* OR vision OR sight OR retin* OR eye) AND (gene therap*)	647	26
United Kingdom	At least one of these words: blind* ocular ophtha* vision sight retin* eye	84	77
	This exact phrase: gene therapy

^aA truncation symbol (*) was used to capture alternative word endings of search terms (e.g. retin* captures retina, retinas, retinopathy, retinopathies, etc.).

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