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Table 1 PRISMA Stage 1 Search Strategy and Electronic Databases

From: Advancing towards contemporary practice: a systematic review of organisational performance measures for non-acute health charities

PRISMA Stage 1: Identification of records

Database search strategy

Five (5) search fields featuring variations of the key study words were targeted using EBSCOHost as the primary search platform supported by GoogleScholar. Each search utilised variations of Boolean operators (AND, OR, * for multiple character wildcard searches, and Parentheses to specify the order of search interpreptation).

 1: Organisation performance of NGOs, third-sector, non-government organisations, non-profit organisations

 2: Organisation performance of health services - non-acute, primary health

 3: Organisation performance of health services - child and paediatric

 4: Organisation performance of health services - non-profit, NPO, third-sector, non-government

 5: Health organisations, paediatric health, child health, primary health, non-acute health, non-profit organisations, non-government organisations, NGOs, non-government health, non-government primary health, third sector, third sector health, third sector child health

Databases utilised in search

A+ Education, Academic OneFile, AINHAL Complete, Applied Science & Technology Source, Art Source, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Business Source Complete, CINAHL Complete, Communication & Mass media Complete, Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text, Directory of Open Access Journals, Education Source, Environment Complete, ERIC, Expanded Academic ASAP, Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index, General OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, GrnFILE, Health Policy Reference Center, Humanities Source, Historical Abstracts with Full Text, Info Trac Health Reference Center Academic, International Biliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, Jewish Studies Source, JSTOR Journals, JSTOR Arts & Sciences, JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV, JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI, JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX, Legal Source, Library & Information Science Source, Library & Information Science & Technology Abstracts, MAS Ultra - School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Philosopher’s Index, Political Science Complete, PsychINFO, Science Citation Index, ScienceDirect, Social Sciences Citation Index, SociNDEX with Full Text, Social Works Abstracts, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Urban Studies Abstracts

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