Table 1 Search strategy utilized to identify the 2003 abstracts selected for full-text review

1

exp Pediatrics/ or exp Infant/ or exp Child/ or exp Adolescent/

3,896,875

2

(pediatric* or infant* or baby or babies or child or children or adolescent* or teen*).ti, ab, kw, kf.

3

1 or 2

4

exp Bone Marrow Transplantation/ or exp Stem Cell Transplantation/

5

((bone marrow or stem cell) adj3 (transplant* or graft*)).ti, ab, kw, kf.

6

4 or 5

7

exp Lung Diseases/ or exp Respiratory Function Tests/

8

((bronchiolit* adj2 (obliteran* or obliterative* or constrictive* or exudative* or proliferative*)) or (pulmonary adj2 (graft versus host or graft vs. host)) or (lung adj2 disease*) or ((lung or pulmonar* or respirator*) adj2 function test*) or airway resistan* or blood gas analysis or oximetry or bronichial provocation or capnography or lung compliance or lung volume measure* or total lung capacit* or maximal respiratory pressure* or plethysmography or pulmonary gas exchange or pulmonary diffusing capacit* or ventilation-perfusion ratio* or forced expiratory flow rate* or forced expiratory volume* or maximal voluntary ventilat* or spirometr* or bronchospirometr* or valsalva maneuver or ventilation-perfusion scan* or work of breathing or DLCO or diffusion capacit* or diffusing capacit* or transfer factor* or residual volume* or multiple breath washout or lung clearance index or inert gas washout or ((peripheral airway* or small airway*) adj2 (disease* or function*))).ti, ab, kw, kf.

9

7 or 8

10

3 and 6 and 9