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Table 3 MEDLINE search strategy

From: Patient reported outcome measures for measuring dignity in palliative and end of life care: a scoping review

 

Search term

Number of hits

1.

personhood/

3271

2.

humanism/

2998

3.

self concept/

47,018

4.

(dignity or dignified). ti,ab.

5091

5.

(personhood o person-hood). ti, ab.

791

6.

(self-worth or self-concept or self-esteem). ti, ab.

18,619

7.

patient-centred care/

12,034

8.

(person adj (centred or centered or focused)).ti, ab.

1781

9.

(patient adj (centred or centered or focused)).ti. ab

11,059

10.

(client adj (centred or centered or focused)).ti, ab.

1108

11.

(user adj (centred or centered or focused)).ti, ab.

526

12.

((whole person or holistic) adj2 (need$ or care or caring)).ti, ab.

1781

13.

or/1–12 (88873)

88,873

14.

Terminal Care/

22,110

15.

Hospice Care/

4852

16.

Palliative Care/

42,211

17.

“Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing”/

131

18.

Hospices/

4440

19.

Palliative Medicine/

35

20.

Terminally Ill/

5562

21.

end of life.ti,ab.

13,365

22.

(end-stage$ or endstage$).ti, ab.

48,621

23.

(life threatening or life limiting).ti, ab.

59,165

24.

((final or last) adj3 days).ti, ab.

10,417

25.

(terminal$ adj3 (ill$ or stage$ or phase or prognosis or disease$ or cancer$)).ti, ab.

14,027

26.

(terminal$ adj3 (care or caring or therap$ or treatment$ or intervention$)).ti, ab.

3908

27.

(terminal$ adj2 patient$).ti, ab

5078

28.

palliat$.ti, ab.

52,801

29.

hospice$.ti, ab.

8971

30.

dying.ti, ab.

26,751

31.

or/14–30

241,674

32.

13 and 31

3374

33.

(death adj2 (dignity or dignified)).ti, ab.

596

34.

32 or 33

3585