Table 2.

Logic grid used to inform search terms in database searching

Keywords
“midwife” or “midwives” or “midwifery” or “nurse-midwife” or “student midwife” or “student nurse-midwife” or “graduate midwife” or “graduate nurse-midwife” or “midwifery education” or “midwifery workforce”	AND	“cost” or “cost effectiveness” or “cost assessment” or “cost evaluation” or “cost analysis” or “cost model” or “cost benefit” or “cost outcome” or “cost reduction” or “cost utility” or “economic evaluation” or “economic assessment” or “economic analysis” or “economic model” or “economic benefit” or “health economics” or “return on investment” or “investment case” or “financing”

MeSH terms and Subject Headings
Midwifery/ or Nurse Midwives/ or midwife/ or nurse midwife/ or midwifery education/ or midwifery student/ or nurse midwifery education/	AND	“costs and cost analysis”/ or economic evaluation/ or economics, hospital/ or economics, medical/ or economics, nursing/ or “health care cost”/ or Health Care Rationing/ or Investments/ or “Resource Allocation”/ or “Budgets”/ or “Cost Containment”/