Table 1.

Tuberculosis search terms

Category	Search terms
Cost	Cost* or economic or finance AND
Tuberculosis	TB or tuberculosis or MDR#TB or XDR#TB or multi? Drug or “resistant tuberculosis” or “strain resistance” or “mycobacterium tuberculosis” AND
Tuberculosis health services including tuberculosis treatment and prevention	treatment or management or drugs or medication or DOTS or “directly observed treatment” or “health system*” or “hospital care” or “epidemiology” or “government hospital setting” or “community based care” or “patient* perspective” or “isoniazid preventive therapy” or “IPT” or “prevention”

The asterisk (*) refers to the Boolean search modifier, where words will match if they start with the word in front of the asterisk. The hashtag (#) allows for ‘stemming’ where the beginning is similar but there may be a different suffix after the hashtag. A question mark (?) is used to match only one character