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Appendix
Methods: European Commission funding for digestive disease research within
Horizon 2020
Research projects related to digestive diseases were identified by automated computer
assisted searching of project abstracts using the digestive disease search terms below.
Projects related to non-digestive diseases were identified using disease specific EuroSciVoc
fields. Searches were performed in R with the " grep " function, ignoring text case.33
Table 3. Search terms that were used to identify Horizon 2020 funded projects related to
digestive and other diseases
Digestive diseases
Appendicitis
Chronic liver diseases
Coeliac disease
Dyspepsia
Eosinophilic oesophagitis
Gallbladder and biliary diseases
Gastritis and duodenitis
Inguinal, femoral, and abdominal
hernia
Irritable bowel syndrome
Pancreatitis
Paralytic ileus and intestinal
obstruction
Peptic ulcer disease
Other diseases
Alzheimer's disease and other
dementias
Asthma
Diabetes mellitus
Glaucoma
Idiopathic epilepsy
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's disease
Schizophrenia
Stroke
Search terms
" appendicitis "
" cirrhosis| liver|hepati|hepato "
" coeliac|celiac "
" dyspepsia|indigestion "
" esophag "
" gallbladder|biliary|cholelithiasis|cholecystitis|gallstone|cholangitis|gall
bladder| bile "
" gastritis|duodenitis|gastroduodenitis|pylori "
Gastroesophageal reflux disease " esophag "
Inflammatory bowel disease
" bowel disease|crohn|colitis|enteritis|diarrh "
" hernia "
" irritable bowel syndrome|irritable colon "
" pancreatitis|pancreas "
" ileus|paralytic|paralysis|obstruct|invagination|intussusception|volvulus|
impaction|strangulation|torsion|twist|occlusion|stenosis|stricture " &
" intestin|ileus|bowel|colon|rectum|rectal|fecal|faecal|gallstone "
" gastric ulcer|duodenal ulcer|peptic ulcer|gastrojejunal
ulcer|gastroduodenal ulcer|pylori "
EuroSciVoc field search terms
" dementia|alzheimer "
" asthma "
" diabetes "
" glaucoma "
" epilepsy "
" multiple sclerosis "
" parkinson "
" schizophrenia "
" stroke|cerebrovascular diseases "
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