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. 2013 Jun 6;8:61. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-61

Table 1.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (OVID 4th Quarter 2005), Healthstar (OVID 1966 to present) and MEDLINE (OVID 1966 to present) search terms strategy

   
1.
 Waiting lists [Mesh Subject exploded]
2.
 Wait* time* or waitlist* or queue* [*Text words]
3.
 (wait* or await*) ADJ2 (list or lists or time*)[*Text words]
4.
 Awaiting [Title Word]
5.
 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
6.
 Transplantation or transplants or tissue donors or emergencies or emergency medical services or emergency service, hospital or emergency service, psychiatric [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
7.
 5 not 6
8.
 Limit 7 to yr = ‘1990 – 2006’
9.
 Limit 8 to abstracts
10.
 Limit 8 to English language
11.
 9 or 10
12.
 National health programs or local government [MeSH Subjects exploded]
13.
 Health services accessibility / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, standards [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
14.
 Health policy or social control policies or organizational policy or public policy or public opinion [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
15.
 Health care rationing / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
16.
 Health priorities / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
17.
 Management information systems [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
18.
 Health personnel / organization & administration [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
19.
 Personnel management / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
20.
 Information systems / methods, organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
21.
 Organizational policy or organizational innovation or efficiency, organizational or decision making, organizational or organizational objectives models, organizational or organizational culture [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
22.
 Regional health planning or regional medical programs [MeSH Subjects exploded]
23.
 Delivery of healthcare / organization & administration, economics, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
24.
 ‘Organization and administration’ / economics, organization & administration, education, legislation and jurisprudence, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
25.
 Decision making or budgets or systems analysis or operations research [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
26.
 Quality of healthcare / organization & administration, economics, legislation & jurisprudence, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
27.
 Economics [MeSH Major Subject]
28.
 Healthcare costs or costs and cost analysis or economics, medical [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
29.
 State medicine / organization & administration, economics, standards, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
30.
 Resource allocation / organization & administration, economics, standards, supply & distribution, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
31.
 Models, theoretical or computing methodologies or communication or Markov chains [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
32.
 Professional practice / methods, organization & administration, education, standards, ethics, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]
33.
 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25 or 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32
34. 11 and 32