#	Searches	Results
1	Health Care Manpower/	9691
2	exp Health Care Personnel/	880657
3	Psychologist/	6696
4	or/1‐3	883612
5	Manpower Planning/	827
6	Health Care Personnel Management/	900
7	Hospital Personnel Management/	341
8	Resource Allocation/	15104
9	Nurse Patient Ratio/	185
10	Nursing Shortage/	180
11	Personnel Shortage/	940
12	or/5‐11	18172
13	4 and 12	4679
14	((recruit* or retain* or retention or scale up or scaling up) adj6 (nurse or nurses or midwife or midwives or physician* or clinician? or doctor* or practitioner* or dentist* or dental staff or pharmacist* or dietician* or nutritionist* or psychologist* or occupational therapist* or physiotherapist* or physical therapist* or speech therapist* or language therapist* or logopaedist* or logopedist* or speech pathologist* or language pathologist* or audiologist* or internist* or paediatrician* or pediatrician* or ophthalmologist* or surgeon* or radiographer* or radiologist* or optometrist* or personnel or worker? or staff or professional? or provider? or manpower or man power or human resources or workforce?)).ti,ab.	12828
15	((density or turnover or turn over or brain drain* or shortage or understaffed or under staffed or (inequit* adj2 distribut*) or (inequal* adj2 distribut*) or maldistribut* or mal distribut* or management or allocation) adj2 (nurse or nurses or midwife or midwives or physician* or clinician? or doctor* or practitioner* or dentist* or dental staff or pharmacist* or dietician* or nutritionist* or psychologist* or occupational therapist* or physiotherapist* or physical therapist* or speech therapist* or language therapist* or logopaedist* or logopedist* or speech pathologist* or language pathologist* or audiologist* or internist* or paediatrician* or pediatrician* or ophthalmologist* or surgeon* or radiographer* or radiologist* or optometrist* or personnel or worker? or staff or professional? or provider? or manpower or man power or human resources or workforce?)).ti,ab.	12864
16	((increas* or expand* or enlarge* or extend or enhanc*) adj3 (proportion* or number? or amount*) adj3 (nurse or nurses or midwife or midwives or physician* or clinician? or doctor* or practitioner* or dentist* or dental staff or pharmacist* or dietician* or nutritionist* or psychologist* or occupational therapist* or physiotherapist* or physical therapist* or speech therapist* or language therapist* or logopaedist* or logopedist* or speech pathologist* or language pathologist* or audiologist* or internist* or paediatrician* or pediatrician* or ophthalmologist* or surgeon* or radiographer* or radiologist* or optometrist* or personnel or worker? or staff or professional? or provider? or manpower or man power or human resources or workforce?)).ti,ab.	2040
17	(((client adj1 staff) or (patient adj1 staff) or (patient adj1 nurse)) adj ratio?).ti,ab.	261
18	or/14‐17	27185
19	13 or 18	31431
20	Rural Health Care/	9644
21	Rural Area/	28714
22	Rural Population/	28987
23	Medically Underserved/	301
24	(rural adj (health* or medical care or medical service?)).ti,ab.	4429
25	rural medicine.ti,ab.	248
26	((rural or remote or nonmetropolitan or non metropolitan or suburb* or developing or less* developed or under developed or underdeveloped or middle income or low* income or underserved or under served or deprived or poor) adj3 (communit* or area? or village* or region? or province? or setting*)).ti,ab.	71346
27	((rural or remote or nonmetropolitan or non metropolitan or suburb* or middle income or low* income or underserved or under served or deprived or poor or village*) adj3 population*).ti,ab.	16048
28	((rural or remote or nonmetropolitan or non metropolitan or suburb* or village*) adj3 (clinic? or hospital? or facility or facilities or health* center? or health* centre? or health care center? or health care centre? or medical center? or medical centre?)).ti,ab.	9467
29	((shortage or understaffed or under staffed) adj3 area?).ti,ab.	378
30	or/20‐29	123519
31	Developing Country.sh.	74448
32	(Africa or Asia or Caribbean or West Indies or South America or Latin America or Central America).hw,ti,ab,cp.	218967
33	(Afghanistan or Albania or Algeria or Angola or Antigua or Barbuda or Argentina or Armenia or Armenian or Aruba or Azerbaijan or Bahrain or Bangladesh or Barbados or Benin or Byelarus or Byelorussian or Belarus or Belorussian or Belorussia or Belize or Bhutan or Bolivia or Bosnia or Herzegovina or Hercegovina or Botswana or Brazil or Brasil or Bulgaria or Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta or Burundi or Urundi or Cambodia or Khmer Republic or Kampuchea or Cameroon or Cameroons or Cameron or Camerons or Cape Verde or Central African Republic or Chad or Chile or China or Colombia or Comoros or Comoro Islands or Comores or Mayotte or Congo or Zaire or Costa Rica or Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast or Croatia or Cuba or Cyprus or Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic or Slovakia or Slovak Republic or Djibouti or French Somaliland or Dominica or Dominican Republic or East Timor or East Timur or Timor Leste or Ecuador or Egypt or United Arab Republic or El Salvador or Eritrea or Estonia or Ethiopia or Fiji or Gabon or Gabonese Republic or Gambia or Gaza or Georgia Republic or Georgian Republic or Ghana or Gold Coast or Greece or Grenada or Guatemala or Guinea or Guam or Guiana or Guyana or Haiti or Honduras or Hungary or India or Maldives or Indonesia or Iran or Iraq or Isle of Man or Jamaica or Jordan or Kazakhstan or Kazakh or Kenya or Kiribati or Korea or Kosovo or Kyrgyzstan or Kirghizia or Kyrgyz Republic or Kirghiz or Kirgizstan or Lao PDR or Laos or Latvia or Lebanon or Lesotho or Basutoland or Liberia or Libya or Lithuania or Macedonia or Madagascar or Malagasy Republic or Malaysia or Malaya or Malay or Sabah or Sarawak or Malawi or Nyasaland or Mali or Malta or Marshall Islands or Mauritania or Mauritius or Agalega Islands or Mexico or Micronesia or Middle East or Moldova or Moldovia or Moldovian or Mongolia or Montenegro or Morocco or Ifni or Mozambique or Myanmar or Myanma or Burma or Namibia or Nepal or Netherlands Antilles or New Caledonia or Nicaragua or Niger or Nigeria or Northern Mariana Islands or Oman or Muscat or Pakistan or Palau or Palestine or Panama or Paraguay or Peru or Philippines or Philipines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Poland or Portugal or Puerto Rico or Romania or Rumania or Roumania or Russia or Russian or Rwanda or Ruanda or Saint Kitts or St Kitts or Nevis or Saint Lucia or St Lucia or Saint Vincent or St Vincent or Grenadines or Samoa or Samoan Islands or Navigator Island or Navigator Islands or Sao Tome or Saudi Arabia or Senegal or Serbia or Montenegro or Seychelles or Sierra Leone or Slovenia or Sri Lanka or Ceylon or Solomon Islands or Somalia or Sudan or Suriname or Surinam or Swaziland or Syria or Tajikistan or Tadzhikistan or Tadjikistan or Tadzhik or Tanzania or Thailand or Togo or Togolese Republic or Tonga or Trinidad or Tobago or Tunisia or Turkey or Turkmenistan or Turkmen or Uganda or Ukraine or Uruguay or USSR or Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Uzbekistan or Uzbek or Vanuatu or New Hebrides or Venezuela or Vietnam or Viet Nam or West Bank or Yemen or Yugoslavia or Zambia or Zimbabwe or Rhodesia).hw,ti,ab,cp.	2771032
34	((developing or less* developed or under developed or underdeveloped or middle income or low* income or underserved or under served or deprived or poor*) adj (countr* or nation? or population? or world or area?)).ti,ab.	69052
35	((developing or less* developed or under developed or underdeveloped or middle income or low* income) adj (economy or economies)).ti,ab.	333
36	(low* adj (gdp or gnp or gross domestic or gross national)).ti,ab.	176
37	(low adj3 middle adj3 countr*).ti,ab.	3668
38	(lmic or lmics or third world or lami countr*).ti,ab.	3608
39	transitional countr*.ti,ab.	134
40	or/31‐39	2948110
41	30 or 40	3006527
42	human resources for health.ti,ab.	332
43	Randomized Controlled Trial/	338773
44	Controlled Clinical Trial/	383742
45	Quasi Experimental Study/	1827
46	Pretest Posttest Control Group Design/	199
47	Time Series Analysis/	13620
48	Experimental Design/	9399
49	Multicenter Study/	105390
50	(randomis* or randomiz* or randomly or random allocat*).ti,ab.	695471
51	groups.ab.	1629944
52	(trial or multicentre or multicenter or multi centre or multi center).ti.	182986
53	(intervention* or controlled or control group or compare or compared or (before adj5 after) or (pre adj5 post) or pretest or pre test or posttest or post test or quasiexperiment* or quasi experiment* or evaluat* or effect or impact or time series or time point? or repeated measur*).ti,ab.	7735141
54	or/43‐53	8453577
55	(systematic review or literature review).ti.	57730
56	"cochrane database of systematic reviews".jn.	3777
57	Nonhuman/	4268363
58	or/55‐57	4328296
59	54 not 58	6662154
60	19 and 41 and 59	2825
61	42 and 59	136
62	60 or 61	2916
63	limit 62 to embase	1904