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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Inform Nurs. 2016 May;34(5):206–213. doi: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000231

Table 1. MeSH Terms Use in PubMed Database Search.

Category MeSH Terms
Technology User ‘community health workers’, ‘caregivers’, ‘health personnel’, ‘emergency medical services’, ‘health personnel’, ‘health services’, ‘home care services’, ‘maternal health services’, ‘medical staff’, ‘mentors’, ‘nursing staff’, ‘patient care team’, ‘peer group’, ‘rural health services’
Technology Device ‘cellular phone’, ‘computers, handheld’, ‘internet’, ‘medical records’, ‘systems, computerized’, ‘mobile applications’, ‘software’, ‘text messaging’, ‘user-computer interface’
Use of Technology ‘appointments and schedules’, ‘data collection’, ‘decision support systems’, ‘delivery of health care’, ‘disease management’, ‘health care surveys’, ‘interviews as topic’, ‘mass screening’, ‘medication adherence’, ‘population surveillance’, ‘public health/education’, ‘questionnaires’, ‘remote consultation’, ‘time factors’
Outcome ‘communication’, ‘costs and cost analysis’, ‘health behavior’, ‘health communication’, ‘health knowledge’, ‘patient acceptance of health care’, ‘patient compliance’, ‘quality of health care’, ‘treatment outcome’