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Table 3 Highest frequency MeSH terms and textwords in the TIS

From: Integrated Care Search: development and validation of a PubMed search filter for retrieving the integrated care research evidence

Terms

Unique citations retrieved from TIS (total n = 107)

% citations retrieved from TIS

MeSH

 Organization & administration.xs.

88

82.3

 Delivery of health care, Integrated/

55

51.4

 Economics.fs.

31

29.0

 Therapy.xs.

30

28.0

Textwords/phrases

 Health*.mp.

104

97.2

 Health.mp.

102

95.3

 Care.mp.

102

95.3

 Care.tw.

94

87.9

 Health*.tw.

85

79.4

 Health care.mp.

81

75.7

 Integrat*.mp.

80

74.8

 Integrat*.tw.

77

72.0

 Health.tw.

75

70.1

 Integrated.mp.

74

69.2

 Services.mp.

68

63.6

 Delivery.mp.

67

62.6

 Integrated.tw.

58

54.2

 Support.mp.

58

54.2

 Patient.mp.

54

50.5

 Services.tw.

49

45.8

 Systems.mp.

43

40.2

 Management.mp.

40

37.4

 Integration.mp.

39

36.5

 Organizational.mp.

39

36.5

 Systems.tw.

37

34.6

 Community.mp.

36

33.7

 Data.mp.

36

33.7

 Model.mp.

35

32.7

 Practice.mp.

35

32.7

 Organizational.mp.

35

32.7

 Quality.mp.

34

31.8

 Health care.tw.

34

31.8

 Service.mp.

33

30.8

 Patient.tw.

33

30.8

 Community.tw.

33

30.8

 Models.mp.

32

30.0

 Management.tw.

32

30.0

 Healthcare.tw.

32

30.0

 Delivery.tw.

31

29.0

 System.mp.

30

28.0

 Service.tw.

30

28.0

 Data.tw.

30

28.0

 Hospital.mp.

30

28.0

 Primary care.mp.

30

28.0

 Primary care.tw.

29

27.1

 Clinical.mp.

29

27.1

 Hospital.tw.

28

26.2

 Disease.mp.

28

26.2

 Design.mp.

27

25.2

±Coordinat*.mp.

21

19.6

  1. .mp = search on title, abstract, keywords, and subject headings
  2. .tw = search on title and abstract
  3. .xs = search on exploded free-floating subheading
  4. .fs = search on free-floating subheading (not exploded)
  5. / = Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) search
  6. ? allows for single letter variants within a word (here: organisational OR organizational)
  7. ±Coordinat* was chosen from lower down the TIS-derived frequency list as a possible equivalent term for ‘integrated’