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Table 1 Keywords for Electronic Database Search

From: Implementation and maintenance of patient navigation programs linking primary care with community-based health and social services: a scoping literature review

Preceding descriptor of navigator

Client OR patient OR community OR system OR care

Navigator

Navigat* OR Coordin*OR Facilitat* OR Network*; Care coordinator; Case manager Nurse Navigator; Patient navigator; System navigator; Personal health navigator; Promotoras; Community matron; Lay Navigator; Guided Care

Primary care

Family health team OR Group health OR Family practice OR Aboriginal Health Centre OR Community health centre OR Family health organization OR Primary care networks OR Family Health Organization OR Solo Practice Physician OR Group Practice OR CLSCs/Centre local de services communautaires OR local community service centre OR nurse practitioner led clinics OR Outpost nursing station OR (see below)

Primary health care

General practice

General practitioners

Primary care nursing

Physicians/Family

Patient centered care

Community health services**

Primary care

Primary medical care

Primary health care

Primary healthcare

Primary health service

General practice**

General practise**

General practitioner

Guided care

Family practice**

Family practise**

Family practitioner

Family health (for family health team) Family medicine

Family physician

Family doctor

PCP** (primary care physician)

Medical home

Associated Groups/Outcomes

Priority populations, social determinants of health, equity, asset-based, target populations, access

  1. Keywords in the electronic database search marked "*" denotes keywords used in the Google and Google Scholar search
  2. Keywords in the electronic database search marked "**" denotes a placeholder or wildcard for truncated keyword, for example, navigat* would retrieve navigation and navigator