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Table 1 Medline search strategy

From: Economic evaluations in community aged care: a systematic review

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Searches

1

(community care or home care or community aged care).tw.

2

((geriatric or elder or ‘older people’) adj2 (home* or apartment* or residence*)).tw.

3

(((home or community) adj5 (dwelling or based or setting*)) or (living adj5 (home or community or independent*))).tw.

4

((community or home* or respite or social or aged) adj5 (care* or welfare* or support*)).tw.

5

Homes for the Aged/ or Health Services for the Aged/ or Social Welfare/ or Community Health Services/ or Independent Living/

6

or/1–5

7

economics/ or Quality-adjusted life years/

8

exp “costs and cost analysis”/ or cost-benefit analysis/ or “cost of illness”/ or exp. health care costs/

9

“Value of Life”/ec [Economics]

10

((economic* adj1 (analys* or evaluat* or model*)) or (cost adj2 (effective* or utilit* or benefit or analysis or minimisation)) or (“quality adjusted life year*” or qaly)).tw.

11

or/7–10

12

Aged/

13

“aged, 80 and over”/ or frail elderly/

14

(elder* or geriatric* or old age* or ((old* or aged) adj (person or people* or adult*))).tw.

15

(aged adj (“65” or “70” or “75” or “80” or “85”)).tw.

16

or/12–15

17

6 and 11 and 16

18

limit 17 to (english language and yr = “2000 - Current”)