Table 1.

Searching strategies.

PubMed	MEDLINE	EMBASE
(1) (“Health literacy” [MeSH] OR (2) “Patient education” as Topic [MeSH] OR (3) “Health status disparities” [MeSH] OR (4) “Educational status” [MeSH] OR (5) “Health education” [MeSH]) AND (6) Blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory [MeSH major topic] (7) Limited to English language	(1) Home monitoring/or home care/ (2) Reading/or health education/or health literacy/ (3) Patient compliance/ (4) Education program/or interdisciplinary education/or education/or health education/or patient education (5) Blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory (6) Self-care/ (7) Educational status/ (8) Patient education as topic/ (9) “Reproducibility of results”/ (10) Essential hypertension/or White coat hypertension/or masked hypertension/or MEDLINE / (11) 1 or 5 or 6 (12) 2 or 4 or 7 or 8 (13) 3 or 9 (14) 10 and 11 and 12 and 13 (15) Limit 14 to (English language and (MEDLINE or “PubMed not MEDLINE”))	(1) Blood pressure monitoring/ (2) Home monitoring/or home care/ (3) Self-monitoring/ (4) Reading/or health education/or health literacy/5. Health disparity/6. Patient compliance/ (7) Reproducibility/ (8) Essential hypertension/ (9) White coat hypertension/ (10) 1 or 2 or 3 (11) 8 or 9 (12) Education program/or interdisciplinary education/or health education/or patient education/ (13) 4 or 5 or 12 (14) 10 and 11 and 13 (15) Limit 14 to (English language and (EMBASE or MEDLINE))
70 items found	63 items found	62 items found