Table 1 Search strategy developed for PubMed and modified appropriately for other databases

FAI

#1 “femoracetabular impingement” [MeSH Terms]

#2 “femoracetabular” [All Fields] AND “impingement” [All Fields]) OR “femoracetabular impingement” [All Fields] OR “femoroacetabular” [All Fields] AND “impingement” [All Fields]) OR “femoroacetabular impingement” [All Fields]

Hip joint

#3 “hip joint”[MeSH Terms] OR (“hip” [All Fields] AND “joint” [All Fields]) OR “hip joint” [All Fields]

#4 chondral [All Fields] OR “cartilage” [MeSH Terms] OR “cartilage” [All Fields]

#5 labral [All Fields] OR acetabular [All Fields] AND labrum [All Fields]

MRI

#6 “magnetic resonance imaging” [MeSH Terms] OR (“magnetic” [All Fields] AND “resonance” [All Fields] AND “imaging” [All Fields]) OR “magnetic resonance imaging” [All Fields]

#7 (“magnetic resonance spectroscopy” [MeSH Terms] OR (“magnetic” [All Fields] AND “resonance” [All Fields] AND “spectroscopy” [All Fields]) OR “magnetic resonance spectroscopy” [All Fields] OR (“magnetic” [All Fields] AND “resonance” [All Fields]) OR “magnetic resonance” [All Fields]) AND (“arthrography” [MeSH Terms] OR “arthrography” [All Fields])

Accuracy of MRI

#8 (“sensitivity and specificity” [MeSH Terms] OR (“sensitivity” [All Fields] AND “specificity” [All Fields]) OR “sensitivity and specificity” [All Fields] OR (“sensitivity” [All Fields] AND “specificity” [All Fields]) OR “sensitivity specificity” [All Fields]) AND accuracy [All Fields]

#9 (true [All Fields] AND positive [All Fields]) OR (true [All Fields] AND negative [All Fields]) OR (false [All Fields] AND positive [All Fields]) OR (false [All Fields] AND negative [All Fields])

Search strategy

((#1 AND #2) AND (#3 OR #4 OR #5)) AND ((#6 OR #7) OR (#8 OR #9))

Last search

17th of May 2016