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Table 1 List of databases and search terms utilised

From: The experience of living with chronic heart failure: a narrative review of qualitative studies

DATABASES (Between 1990 May 2008)

LIST OF SEARCH TERMS (ab., ti., kw., hw.)

SELECTION CRITERIA

CINAHL

MEDLINE

PsycINFO

The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

APAIS Health

Proquest Health

Wiley Interscience

PubMed

'Chronic heart failure' or 'congestive heart failure' or 'heart failure'

AND 'experience'

AND 'Qualitative', 'Interview', 'Phenomenology', 'Grounded Theory', 'Narrative', 'Ethnography' or 'Observation'

Inclusion Criteria:

Literature describing the experiences of people diagnosed with CHF:

1) people with CHF,

2) carers of people with CHF, and/or

3) health care professionals involved in caring for patients with CHF

  

Exclusion criteria:

Editorials, commentaries, discussion papers and conference abstracts

Non-English paper