Table 1.

Medline search terms used to identify relevant articles on palliative care models, service planning tools and palliative care needs of Australians in searches conducted on 4 ^th April 2012

1.	exp advance care planning/OR exp attitude to death/OR exp bereavement/OR exp terminal care/OR exp hospices/OR exp life support care/OR exp palliative care/OR exp terminally ill/OR death/OR palliate$.mp OR hospice$.mp OR terminal care.mp
2.	(dying.mp OR death.mp OR end of life.mp) AND (imminen$.mp OR nearing.mp OR last day$.mp OR last week.mp OR last hour$.mp OR final day$.mp OR final week.mp OR final hour$.mp OR critical pathway$.mp)
3.	1 OR 2
4.	exp delivery of health care/AND (exp models, theoretical/OR exp models, economic/)
5.	exp Community Health Planning/OR exp health care reform/OR exp decision making, organizational/OR exp planning techniques/OR exp Health Services Needs and Demand/OR exp healthcare disparities/
6.	(exp Australia/OR Australia$.mp) AND (exp attitude/OR attitude$.mp OR belief$.mp OR knowledge.mp or “unmet need$”.mp)
7.	4 OR 5 OR 6
8.	3 AND 7 (limit publication date to 2001-current)

Only results relating to palliative care models are reported in this paper.