Table 1 Search strategy—Ovid MEDLINE
From: Inappropriateness of health care in Canada: a systematic review protocol
# | Controlled vocabulary (MeSH) and text word search terms |
|---|---|
1 | Health services research/ |
2 | Health care reform/ |
3 | “Health services needs and demand”/ |
4 | Comparative effectiveness research/ |
5 | Inappropriate Prescribing/ |
6 | Quality Assurance, Health Care/ |
7 | guidelines as topic/ or practice guidelines as topic/ |
8 | “Quality of Health Care”/ |
9 | (quality adj2 indicat*).tw. |
10 | Delivery of Health Care/ |
11 | or/1-10 |
12 | Guideline Adherence/ |
13 | Critical Pathways/ |
14 | exp Decision Theory/ or Decision Trees/ or exp Decision Support Techniques/ |
15 | ((clinical or diagnostic or practice or practice or physician) adj3 decision* adj3 (rule or tool or tools or pathway* or support* or model or models or system or systems)).ti,ab. |
16 | ((CDST or CDSTs) and decision).ti,ab. |
17 | ((pathway? or protocol? or algorithm?) adj2 (clinical or treatment? or diagnos* or management or infection? or infectious? or antibiotic?)).ti,ab. |
18 | critical pathway*.ti. |
19 | inappropriate.ti,ab,kf. |
20 | (quality adj2 (improv$ or manag$ or care or healthcare)).ti,ab. |
21 | ((inappropriate or appropriate or overuse or overused or over-used or over-use) adj2 (care or approach or health care or healthcare or treat* or therap*)).ti,ab. |
22 | or/12-21 |
23 | (canadian* or canada* or british columbia* or alberta* or saskatchewan* or manitoba* or ontario* or quebec* or new brunswick* or prince edward island* or nova scotia* or labrador* or newfoundland* or nunavut* or northwest territor* or yukon* or toronto* or montreal* or vancouver* or ottawa* or calgary* or edmonton* or winnipeg* or first nation* or metis).jw,ti,ab,hw,ot,kf. |
24 | ((indigenous or aborig*) adj2 (people or person*)).ti,ab,kf. |
25 | exp Canada/ |
26 | Or/23-25 |
27 | 11 and 22 and 26 |
28 | limit 23 to yr=“2007 - 2019” |