Table 5 Search terms used

PubMed: Medical Subject Heading (MesH) terms

(((("Organizational Innovation"[Mesh] OR "hospital restructuring"[MeSH Terms] OR "Health Care Reform"[Mesh]) AND ("Delivery of Health Care"[Mesh] OR "Health Care Sector"[Mesh])) AND ("Institutional Practice"[Mesh] OR "Clinical Protocols"[Mesh] OR "Physician's Practice Patterns"[Mesh] OR "Nurse's Practice Patterns"[Mesh])) AND ("Quality Improvement"[Mesh] OR "Quality of Health Care"[Mesh] OR "Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation"[Mesh] OR “Efficiency, Organizational” [Mesh] OR “total quality management” [Mesh] OR “patient safety” [Mesh] OR “patient-centered care” [Mesh]))

PubMed: Free-text words

((redesign*[Title/Abstract]OR restructur*[Title/Abstract] OR “process improvement” [Title/Abstract]) AND healthcare [Title/Abstract](AND routin* [Title/Abstract] OR process* [Title/Abstract]) AND (“quality of care” [Title/Abstract] OR “efficien*” [Title/Abstract] OR “safe*” [Title/Abstract] OR “timel*” [Title/Abstract] OR “effective*” [Title/Abstract] OR “patient-centered” [Title/Abstract] OR “equitable” [Title/Abstract])

CINAHL: CINAHL Headings terms

((MH "Work Redesign") OR (MH "Health Care Reform") OR (MH "Organizational Change") OR (MH "Organizational Restructuring”)) AND (MH "Health Care Delivery") AND ((MH "Medical Practice") OR (MH "Advanced Nursing Practice") OR (MH "Professional Practice, Research-Based") OR (MH "Professional Practice, Theory-Based") OR (MH "Nursing Practice") OR (MH "Professional Practice, Evidence-Based") OR (MH "Nursing Practice, Theory-Based") OR (MH "Nursing Practice, Research-Based") OR (MH "Nursing Practice, Evidence-Based") OR (MH "Medical Practice, Research-Based") OR (MH "Medical Practice, Evidence-Based") OR (MH "Nursing Care") OR (MH "Practice Patterns")) AND ((MH "Quality of Health Care") OR (MH "Quality Management, Organizational") OR (MH "Quality Assessment") OR (MH "Quality Improvement") OR (MH "Quality Assurance") OR (MH "Quality of Nursing Care") OR (MH "Patient Safety") OR (MH "Organizational Efficiency") OR (MH "Patient Centered Care"))

CINAHL: Free-text words

(redesign* OR restructure* OR “process improvement”) AND healthcare AND (routin* OR proces*) AND (“quality of care" OR efficiency OR safe* OR timel* OR effectiveness OR “patient-centered” OR equitable)

Web of Science: Free-text words

(redesign* OR restructure* OR “process improvement”) AND healthcare AND (routin* OR proces*) AND (“quality of care" OR efficiency OR safe* OR timel* OR effectiveness OR “patient-centered” OR equitable)

Business Premier Source: Thesaurus terms

(((((DE "REENGINEERING (Management)") OR (DE "PROCESS optimization")) OR (DE "ORGANIZATIONAL change")) AND (DE "MEDICAL care")) AND (DE "ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness"))

Business Premier Source: free-text words

(redesign* OR restructure* OR “process improvement”) AND healthcare AND (routin* OR proces*) AND (“quality of care" OR efficiency OR safe* OR timel* OR effectiveness OR “patient-centered” OR equitable)