Table A1.
Search strategy.
| Concept A | Pregnancy and childbirth | |
|---|---|---|
| MEDLINE | Subject headings (MeSH) | pregnancy/ or pregnant women/ or gravidity/ or parturition/ or prenatal care/ or postpartum period/ or postnatal care/ or pregnancy outcome/ or labour or labor, obstetric/ or delivery, obstetric/ or obstetrics/ or infant care/ or perinatal care/ or maternal health services/ or maternal-child health services/ or womens health services/ or infant mortality/ or maternal mortality/ or maternal death/ or child health services/ or pregnancy complications/ or reproductive health services/ |
| EMBASE | Subject headings | pregnancy/ or birth/ or prenatal Care/ or childbirth/ or natural childbirth/ or obstetric delivery/ or puerperium/ or postnatal care/ or newborn care/ or child health care/ or newborn/ or labour/ or labour management/ or vaginal delivery/ or child health/ or perinatal care/ or perinatal period/ or maternal care/ or maternal health care/ or pregnant woman/ |
| MEDLINE, EMBASE | Text words | (maternal health or newborn health).mp. or (maternal adj2 child health).mp. or (maternity care).mp. or ((newborn* or infan*) adj2 (care)).tw. or (intrapartum or intra partum or delivery or birth or labour or obstetric care or caesarean or vaginal delivery).mp. or (pregnan* or matern* or gestation* or antenatal or prenatal or perinatal or peri natal or peri-natal or postnatal or post-natal or postpartum or post partum or post-partum or natal or gravidit* or gravida* or multigravid* or primigravid* or parturition or nullip* or multip*).mp. or (expectant adj (mother* or wom#n or female* or girl*)).mp. |
| Concept B | Pacific Island Nations | |
| MEDLINE | Subject headings (MeSH) | exp pacific islands/ or exp melanesia/ or exp micronesia/ |
| EMBASE | Subject headings | exp pacific ocean/ |
| MEDLINE, EMBASE | Text words | (American Samoa* or Cook Island* or Federated States Micronesia* or Fiji* or Kiribati* or Marshall Islands* or Nauru* or Niue* or Palau* or Papua New Guinea* or PNG* or Samoa* or Solomon Island* or Tokelau* or Tonga* or Tuvalu* or Vanuatu*).mp. or (melanesia* or micronesia* or polynesia*).mp. or (Pago Pago* or Rarotonga* or Avarua* or Palikir* or Suva* or Tarawa* or Majuro* or Yaren* or Alofi* or Ngerulmud* or Port Moresby or Apia or Honiara or Atafu* or Nuku*alofa or Port Vila*).mp. |
| Concept C | Quality care | |
| MEDLINE | Subject headings (MeSH) |
Quality of Health Care/ or Quality Improvement/ or Quality Indicators, Health Care/ or Clinical Audit/ or Medical Audit/ or Near Miss, Healthcare/ or Quality indicator, Healthcare/ or Delivery of Health Care/ or Health Services Accessibility/ or Attitude of health personnel/ or Health knowledge, attitudes, practice/ or Health Resources/ or Health Workforce/ or Health Services/ or Patient satisfaction/ |
| EMBASE | Subject headings | Health care quality/ Benchmarking/ Clinical effectiveness/ Clinical indicator/ Health care survey/ Medical error/ Patient attitude/ Patient satisfaction/ Practice gap/ Practice guideline/ Program evaluation/ Public health systems research/ |
| MEDLINE, EMBASE | Text words | Quality.tw. (Quality of care).tw. (Program evaluation or benchmarking or clinical audit or medical audit or nursing audit or near miss or close call*or quality improvement or quality indicator* or standard* of care).mp. (health facilit* or health workforce or health service* or birthing cent* or health personnel or health services administrat*).mp. (health care quality or health care access or health care evaluation).mp. |