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Table 1 Search strategy Ovid MEDLINE(R)

From: Instruments to measure patient experience of health care quality in hospitals: a systematic review protocol

 

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1

Patient-centred care/

2

Exp *quality indicators, health care/

3

is.fs.

4

*“Process assessment (health care)”/

5

*“Health care surveys”/is (instrumentation)

6

Patient-reported.mp.

7

*“Questionnaires”/st (standards)

8

Quality of care.mp.

9

Health care surveys/ or questionnaires/

10

Patient experience.mp.

11

*“Outcome assessment (health care)”/

12

*“Inpatients”/

13

is.fs. or measure*.mp. or validation.mp.

14

Inpatients/

15

Secondary care/

16

Hospital*.mp.

17

(Acute adj (service* or care or setting*)).mp.

18

(Patient* adj3 experience*).mp.

19

(Quality* adj3 (care or healthcare)).mp.

20

1 or 10 or 18

21

14 or 15 or 16 or 17

22

5 or 13

23

20 and 21 and 22

24

2 or 8 or 19

25

23 and 24

26

(Patient* adj2 (perspective* or opinion* or experience*)).mp.

27

25 and 26

  1. Footnote for Table 1: An asterisk (*) represents the most significant concept in Medical Subject Headings within MEDLINE. The slash (/) is used to describe more completely an aspect of a subject. A major topic asterisk before a subheading (/) indicates that that major concept and subheading are associated.