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. 2020 Jan 21;20:12. doi: 10.1186/s12874-020-0901-y

Table 3.

Highest frequency MeSH terms and textwords in the TIS

Terms Unique citations retrieved from TIS (total n = 107) % citations retrieved from TIS
MeSH
 Organization & administration.xs. 88 82.3
 Delivery of health care, Integrated/ 55 51.4
 Economics.fs. 31 29.0
 Therapy.xs. 30 28.0
Textwords/phrases
 Health*.mp. 104 97.2
 Health.mp. 102 95.3
 Care.mp. 102 95.3
 Care.tw. 94 87.9
 Health*.tw. 85 79.4
 Health care.mp. 81 75.7
 Integrat*.mp. 80 74.8
 Integrat*.tw. 77 72.0
 Health.tw. 75 70.1
 Integrated.mp. 74 69.2
 Services.mp. 68 63.6
 Delivery.mp. 67 62.6
 Integrated.tw. 58 54.2
 Support.mp. 58 54.2
 Patient.mp. 54 50.5
 Services.tw. 49 45.8
 Systems.mp. 43 40.2
 Management.mp. 40 37.4
 Integration.mp. 39 36.5
 Organizational.mp. 39 36.5
 Systems.tw. 37 34.6
 Community.mp. 36 33.7
 Data.mp. 36 33.7
 Model.mp. 35 32.7
 Practice.mp. 35 32.7
 Organizational.mp. 35 32.7
 Quality.mp. 34 31.8
 Health care.tw. 34 31.8
 Service.mp. 33 30.8
 Patient.tw. 33 30.8
 Community.tw. 33 30.8
 Models.mp. 32 30.0
 Management.tw. 32 30.0
 Healthcare.tw. 32 30.0
 Delivery.tw. 31 29.0
 System.mp. 30 28.0
 Service.tw. 30 28.0
 Data.tw. 30 28.0
 Hospital.mp. 30 28.0
 Primary care.mp. 30 28.0
 Primary care.tw. 29 27.1
 Clinical.mp. 29 27.1
 Hospital.tw. 28 26.2
 Disease.mp. 28 26.2
 Design.mp. 27 25.2
±Coordinat*.mp. 21 19.6

.mp = search on title, abstract, keywords, and subject headings

.tw = search on title and abstract

.xs = search on exploded free-floating subheading

.fs = search on free-floating subheading (not exploded)

/ = Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) search

? allows for single letter variants within a word (here: organisational OR organizational)

±Coordinat* was chosen from lower down the TIS-derived frequency list as a possible equivalent term for ‘integrated’