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Table 2 Proposed search terms developed on PubMed

From: Quality measures for palliative care in patients living with cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol

Palliative carea

palliative care: “palliative care”[MeSH Terms] OR (“palliative”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields]) OR “palliative care”[All Fields]

hospice care: “hospice care”[MeSH Terms] OR (“hospice”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields]) OR “hospice care”[All Fields]

end of life care: “terminal care”[MeSH Terms] OR (“terminal”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields]) OR “terminal care”[All Fields] OR (“end”[All Fields] AND “life”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields]) OR “end of life care”[All Fields] OR “hospice care”[MeSH Terms] OR (“hospice”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields]) OR “hospice care”[All Fields] OR (“end”[All Fields] AND “life”[All Fields] AND “care”[All Fields])

Patients living with cancera

cancer: “cancer’s”[All Fields] OR “cancerated”[All Fields] OR “canceration”[All Fields] OR “cancerization”[All Fields] OR “cancerized”[All Fields] OR “cancerous”[All Fields] OR “neoplasms”[MeSH Terms] OR “neoplasms”[All Fields] OR “cancer”[All Fields] OR “cancers”[All Fields]

patients: “patient’s”[All Fields] OR “patients”[MeSH Terms] OR “patients”[All Fields] OR “patient”[All Fields] OR “patients’s”[All Fields]

Palliative care quality measuresa

quality: “qualities”[All Fields] OR “quality”[All Fields] OR “quality’s”[All Fields]

measures: “measurability”[All Fields] OR “measurable”[All Fields] OR “measurably”[All Fields] OR “measure’s”[All Fields] OR “measureable”[All Fields] OR “measured”[All Fields] OR “measurement”[All Fields] OR “measurement’s”[All Fields] OR “measurements”[All Fields] OR “measurer”[All Fields] OR “measurers”[All Fields] OR “measuring”[All Fields] OR “measurings”[All Fields] OR “measurment”[All Fields] OR “measurments”[All Fields] OR “weights and measures”[MeSH Terms] OR (“weights”[All Fields] AND “measures”[All Fields]) OR “weights and measures”[All Fields] OR “measure”[All Fields] OR “measures”[All Fields]

metrics: “benchmarking”[MeSH Terms] OR “benchmarking”[All Fields] OR “metrics”[All Fields] OR “metric’s”[All Fields] OR “metronidazole”[MeSH Terms] OR “metronidazole”[All Fields] OR “metric”[All Fields]

patient satisfaction: “patient satisfaction”[MeSH Terms] OR (“patient”[All Fields] AND “satisfaction”[All Fields]) OR “patient satisfaction”[All Fields]

indicators: “indicate”[All Fields] OR “indicated”[All Fields] OR “indicates”[All Fields] OR “indicating”[All Fields] OR “indicative”[All Fields] OR “indicatives”[All Fields] OR “indicators and reagents”[Pharmacological Action] OR “indicators and reagents”[MeSH Terms] OR (“indicators”[All Fields] AND “reagents”[All Fields]) OR “indicators and reagents”[All Fields] OR “indicator”[All Fields] OR “indicators”[All Fields] OR “indice”[All Fields] OR “indices”[All Fields]

LMICsa

“developing countries”[MeSH Terms] OR (“developing”[All Fields] AND “countries”[All Fields]) OR “developing countries”[All Fields] OR “lmics”[All Fields] OR “lmic’s”[All Fields]

  1. aResults of the three tables will be combined with “AND”