Table 3.

Syntaxes of combined descriptors in the scientific database search.

CINAHL
S1	(MM “Cancer Patients”) OR “Cancer Patients”
S2	(MM “Head and Neck Neoplasms+”) OR “Head and Neck Neoplasms”
S3	S1 AND S2
S4	(MM “Nursing Interventions”) OR “Nursing Interventions”
S5	(MM “Nursing Practice+”) OR “Nursing Practice” OR (MM “Advanced Nursing Practice+”) OR (MM “Office Nursing”)
S6	S4 OR S5
S7	(MM “Preoperative Education” OR “preoperative Education” OR (MM “Patient Education+”)
S8	(MM “preoperative Care+”) OR “Preoperative Care” OR (MH “Preoperative Period”)
S9	“User Embracement”
S10	“Nursing Consultation”
S11	“Preoperative Nursing Visit”
S12	(MM “Operating Rooms”) OR “Operating Rooms” OR (MH “Perioperative Nursing”)
S13	S7 OR S8 OR S9 OR S10 OR S11 OR S12
S14	S7 AND S8 AND S10 AND S12
S15	S7 OR S8 OR S10 OR S12
S16	S9 AND S11
S17	S9 OR S11
S18	S11 AND S12
S19	S3 AND S13
S20	S3 AND S7
S21	S3 AND S11
S22	S3 AND S6 AND S13
S23	S15 AND S20
Medline
S1	(MM “Patients+”) OR “Patients”
S2	(MM “Head and Neck Neoplasms+”) OR “Head and Neck Neoplasms” OR (MM “Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck”)
S3	“Cancer Patients”
S4	S1 AND S2 AND S3
S5	(MM “Nursing+”) OR “Nursing” OR (MM “ Oncology Nursing”)
S6	(MM “Nurse’s Role”) OR “Nurse’s Role”
S7	(MM “Nursing Assessment+”) OR “Nursing Assessment”
S8	(MM “Nursing, Practical”) OR “Nursing Practical”
S9	(MM “Nursing Care+”) OR “Nursing Care”
S10	(MM “Nurse Practitioners+”) OR “Nurse Practitioners”
S11	S5 OR S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9 OR S10
S12	(MM “Preoperative Care+”) OR “Preoperative Care” OR (MM “Preoperative Period”)
S13	(MM “Patient Education as Topic+”) OR “Patient Education as Topic”
S14	“Nursing Visit”
S15	(MM “Operating Room Nursing”) OR (MM “Operating Rooms”) OR “Operating Rooms”
S16	“Preoperative Nursing Visit”
S17	“Preoperative Nursing Consultation”
S18	S12 OR S13 OR S14 OR S15 OR S16 OR S17
S19	S12 AND S14 AD S16
S20	S12 AND S13
S21	S4 AND S11
S22	S12 AND S21
S23	S4 AND S18
S24	S11 AND S23
S25	S11 AND S18
S26	S4 AND S25