Table 2 Empirically derived search strategies to identify nurse staffing research in PubMed
Sensitive | |
|---|---|
1 | staff[tiab] OR staffing[tiab] OR organizational[tiab] OR skill mix[tiab] OR length of stay[tiab] OR medicare[tiab] |
2 | "Nursing Staff, Hospital"[mh] |
3 | "Personnel Staffing and Scheduling"[mh] |
4 | "Intensive Care Units/manpower"[mh] |
5 | "Nursing Administration Research"[mh] |
6 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 |
7 | "health services administration"[mh] |
8 | nurse[tiab] OR nurses[tiab] OR hospitals[tiab] OR nursing[tiab] |
9 | "hospital units"[mh] |
10 | #8 OR #9 |
11 | #6 AND #7 AND #10 |
Precise | |
1 | "Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)" [mh] |
2 | "Hospital Units" [mh] |
3 | hospitals[tiab] |
4 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 |
5 | nurse[tiab] or nurses[tiab] |
6 | staffing[tiab] |
7 | "Nursing Staff, Hospital" [mh] |
8 | #6 OR #7 |
9 | outcomes[tiab] |
10 | #4 AND #5 AND #8 AND #9 |
Balanced | |
1 | "Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)" [mh] |
2 | "Hospital Units" [mh] |
3 | hospitals[tiab] |
4 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 |
5 | (nurse[tiab] OR nurses[tiab]) AND staffing[tiab] |
6 | "Nursing Staff, Hospital" [mh] |
7 | #5 OR #6 |
8 | #4 AND #7 |