Table 1.

Detailed search strategy by database

Database	Research strategy
BVS	(“health profile” OR “health status” OR mortality OR demography OR epidemiology OR “epidemiological profile” OR “outcome measure” OR “Health level” OR “outcome studies” OR “outcomes research” OR “health service” OR “frequency” OR prevalence OR incidence)) AND (“intensive care unit” OR icu OR uti OR “critical care” OR “critical illness” OR “Critical care outcomes”)) AND (brazil OR brazil OR brazil OR “Latin America” OR “South America”))) AND (instance:”regional”) AND (limit:(“humans”) AND year_cluster :(“2013” OR “2014” OR “2012” OR “2015” OR “2010” OR “2011” OR “2008” OR “2016” OR “2009” OR “2007” OR “2017” OR “2018” OR “2019” OR “2020”))
PubMed®	((((“health status”[MeSH Terms] OR (“demography”[MeSH Terms] OR “demography”[All Fields]) OR ((“epidemiology”[MeSH Terms] OR “epidemiology” [Subheading] OR “epidemiological”[All Fields]) OR profile[All Fields])) AND ((“intensive care units”[MeSH Terms] OR UTI[All Fields] OR CTI[All Fields]) OR ICU[All Fields])) AND ((“brazil”[MeSH Terms] OR “brazil”[All Fields]) OR brasil[All Fields])) NOT ((“infant, newborn”[MeSH Terms] OR (“infant”[All Fields] AND “newborn”[All Fields]) OR “newborn infant”[All Fields] OR “neonatal”[All Fields]) OR (“pediatrics”[MeSH Terms] OR “pediatrics”[All Fields] OR “pediatric”[All Fields]) OR (“child”[MeSH Terms] OR “child”[All Fields] OR “children”[All Fields])) AND “humans”[MeSH Terms]
Embase	(‘health status’ OR demography OR epidemiology OR ‘health level’ OR ‘health service’) AND (‘intensive care unit’ OR icu OR uti OR ‘critical care’ and OR ‘critical illness’ OR ‘critical care outcomes’) AND (Brazil OR Brazil OR Brazilian OR ‘Latin America’ OR ‘South America’) AND [2007-2020]/py
SciELO	AND Profile “Intensive Care Units”

BVS - Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde; SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online.