Annexure 1:
Search strategy for various data bases.
| PubMed | ||
| #1 | ‘Community’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Population’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Cohort’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Group’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘people’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘adult*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘patient*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘child*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘elder*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘adolescen*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Young’[Title/Abstract] | 13,067,224 |
| #2 | ‘Need’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Demand’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘requir*’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘estimat*’[Title/Abstract] | 4,553,110 |
| #3 | ‘palliative care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘end of life care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘palliative medicine’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘terminal care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘hospice care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘Palliative’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘support care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘advance care’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘palliative care’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘terminal care’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘hospice care’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘palliative medicine’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘palliative care’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘nursing care’[MeSH Terms] OR ‘serious health related suffering’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘life limiting illness’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘life threatening disease’[Title/Abstract] OR ‘terminally ill’[Title/Abstract] | 293,253 |
| #4 | ‘india*’[Title/Abstract] | 203,310 |
| #5 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4 | 346 |
| EMBASE | ||
| #1 | community OR population OR cohort OR group OR people OR ‘adult’/exp OR ‘adult’ OR ‘adults’ OR ‘grown-ups’ OR ‘grownup’ OR ‘grownups’ OR ‘patient’/exp OR ‘child’/exp OR ‘child’ OR ‘children’ OR young OR ‘aged’/exp OR ‘aged’ OR ‘aged patient’ OR ‘aged people’ OR ‘aged person’ OR ‘aged subject’ OR ‘elderly’ OR ‘elderly patient’ OR ‘elderly people’ OR ‘elderly person’ OR ‘elderly subject’ OR ‘senior citizen’ OR ‘senium’ | 20,889,924 |
| #2 | ‘need’/exp OR estimate OR ‘demand’/exp OR requirement) AND ‘India’/exp | 711,146 |
| #3 | end of life care’ OR ‘palliative therapy’/exp OR ‘palliation’ OR ‘palliative care’ OR ‘palliative consultation’ OR ‘palliative medicine’ OR ‘palliative radiotherapy’ OR ‘palliative surgery’ OR ‘palliative therapy’ OR ‘palliative treatment’ OR ‘symptomatic treatment’ OR ‘terminal care’ OR ‘hospice care’ OR palliative OR ‘support care’ OR ‘advance care planning’/exp OR ‘nursing care’ OR ‘serious health-related suffering’ OR ‘life limiting illness’ OR ‘life threatening disease’ OR ‘terminally ill patient’/exp | 350,069 |
| #4 | India | 188,386 |
| #5 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4 | 27 |
| Web of Science | ||
| #1 | TS=(Community OR Population OR Cohort OR Group OR people OR adult* OR patient* OR child* OR elder* OR adolescent* OR Young) | 14538067 |
| #2 | TS=(Need OR Demand OR require* OR estimate*) | 7721864 |
| #3 | TS=(palliative care OR end of life care OR palliative medicine OR terminal care OR hospice care OR Palliative OR support care OR advance care OR palliative care OR terminal care OR hospice care OR palliative medicine OR palliative care OR nursing care OR serious health related suffering OR life-limiting illness OR life threatening disease OR terminally ill) | 497187 |
| #4 | TS=(India) | 208327 |
| #5 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4 | 1433 |
| EBSCOHost-Academic Search Complete | ||
| #1 | TX ‘Community’ OR TX ‘Population’ OR TX ‘Cohort’ OR TX ‘Group’ OR TX ‘people’ OR TX ‘adult*’ OR TX ‘patient*’ OR TX ‘child*’ OR TX ‘elder*’ OR TX ‘adolescent*’ OR TX ‘Young’ | 383493 |
| #2 | TX ‘Need’ OR TX ‘Demand’ OR TX ‘require*’ OR TX ‘estimate*’ | 238,551 |
| #3 | TX ‘palliative care’ OR TX ‘end of life care’ OR TX ‘palliative medicine’ OR TX ‘terminal care’ OR TX ‘hospice care’ OR TX ‘Palliative’ OR TX ‘support care’ OR TX ‘advance care’ OR TX ‘terminal care’ OR TX ‘serious health related suffering’ OR TX ‘life limiting illness’ OR TX ‘life threatening disease’ OR TX ‘terminally ill’ | 3722 |
| #4 | TX ‘India*’ | 71397 |
| #5 | 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4 | 804 |
| Cochrane | ||
| #1 | (Community):ti, ab, kw OR (Population):ti, ab, kw OR (Cohort):ti, ab, kw OR (Group):ti, ab, kw OR (people):ti, ab, kw OR (adult*):ti, ab, kw OR (child*):ti, ab, kw OR (elder*):ti, ab, kw OR (adolescen*):ti, ab, kw OR (Young*):ti, ab, kw | 1371409 |
| #2 | (Need):ti, ab, kw OR (Demand):ti, ab, kw OR (requir*):ti, ab, kw OR (estimat*):ti, ab, kw | 337591 |
| Cochrane | ||
| #3 | (‘palliative care): ti, ab, kw OR (‘end of life care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘palliative medicine’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘terminal care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘hospice care’):ti, ab, kw OR (Palliative):ti, ab, kw OR (‘support care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘advance care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘palliative care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘terminal care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘hospice care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘palliative medicine’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘nursing care’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘serious health related suffering’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘life limiting illness’):ti, ab, kw OR (‘terminally ill’):ti, ab, kw | 13430 |
| #4 | (India):ti, ab, kw | 10666 |
| #5 | 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4 | 21 |