Table 2 Search strategy for Ovid Medline search strategy for palliative care and cancer
From: Palliative Care Evidence Review Service (PaCERS): a knowledge transfer partnership
1. Palliative care/ | |
2. Terminal Care/ | |
3. Terminally ill/ | |
4. Hospice care/ | |
5. (“palliative care” or “supportive care” or “hospice care” or “end of life care”).tw. | |
6. ((hospice or terminal*) adj3 (care or caring or ill*)).tw. | |
7. (“last year of life” or LYOL or “end of life” or “end of their lives”).tw. | |
8. (end-stage disease* or end stage disease* or end-stage ill* or end stage ill*).tw. | |
9. or/1–8 | |
10. exp. Neoplasms/ | |
11. (cancer* or oncolog* or neoplasm* or carcinom* or tumo?r* or malignan* or Leukemia* or lymphoma* or leukaemia*).tw. | |
12. 10 or 11 | |
13. 9 or 12 |