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Table 2 Searching strategy

From: The outcome of COVID-19 among the geriatric age group in African countries: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Serial number

Databases

Number of the article found

Number of the article included

Number of Excluded article

Reason for exclusion

1

PubMed

n=

n=

n=

 

2

Google Scholar

n=

n=

n=

 

3

Web of Science

n=

n=

n=

 

4

Cochran Library

n=

n=

n=

 

5

Africa Wide Knowledge

n=

n=

n=

 

6

Africa Index Medicus

n=

n=

n=

 

7

Microsoft Academic

n=

n=

n=

 

8

WHO COVID-19 database

n=

n=

n=

 

9

Unpublished (pre-prent, manuscript, thesis and report from WHO,CDC)

n=

n=

n=

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