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Table 2 Searches conducted throughout databases and the grey literature

From: What primary health care services should residents of rural and remote Australia be able to access? A systematic review of “core” primary health care services

Type of Information

Source

Strategy

Databases

• Ovid Medline

“Primary Health Care/”; essential adj4 service$; core adj4 service$; medical necessity; basic adj4 service$; comprehensive adj4 service$; community access; acceptable adj4 service$; minimum adj4 service$; fundamental adj4 service$; element$ adj4 service$

• Ebsco CINAHL

• Informit

• Cochrane Library

Grey Literature

• Institute of Medicine (http://www.iom.edu/Reports.aspx)

The same search terms were used for these websites as was used for the databases.

• Healthinfonet (http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/)

• Lowitja Institute (http://www.lowitja.org.au/)

• Primary Care Partnerships in Victoria (http://www.health.vic.gov.au/pcps/about/index.htm)

• American College of Physicians (http://www.acponline.org/)

• Bureau of Health Professions (http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/)

 

• Health Systems Evidence (http://www.healthsystemsevidence.org/)