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Table 1 Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (OVID 4 th Quarter 2005), Healthstar (OVID 1966 to present) and MEDLINE (OVID 1966 to present) search terms strategy

From: Toward systematic reviews to understand the determinants of wait time management success to help decision-makers and managers better manage wait times

1.

Waiting lists [Mesh Subject exploded]

2.

Wait* time* or waitlist* or queue* [*Text words]

3.

(wait* or await*) ADJ2 (list or lists or time*)[*Text words]

4.

Awaiting [Title Word]

5.

1 or 2 or 3 or 4

6.

Transplantation or transplants or tissue donors or emergencies or emergency medical services or emergency service, hospital or emergency service, psychiatric [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

7.

5 not 6

8.

Limit 7 to yr = ‘1990 – 2006’

9.

Limit 8 to abstracts

10.

Limit 8 to English language

11.

9 or 10

12.

National health programs or local government [MeSH Subjects exploded]

13.

Health services accessibility / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, standards [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

14.

Health policy or social control policies or organizational policy or public policy or public opinion [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

15.

Health care rationing / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

16.

Health priorities / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

17.

Management information systems [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

18.

Health personnel / organization & administration [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

19.

Personnel management / organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

20.

Information systems / methods, organization & administration, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

21.

Organizational policy or organizational innovation or efficiency, organizational or decision making, organizational or organizational objectives models, organizational or organizational culture [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

22.

Regional health planning or regional medical programs [MeSH Subjects exploded]

23.

Delivery of healthcare / organization & administration, economics, legislation & jurisprudence [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

24.

‘Organization and administration’ / economics, organization & administration, education, legislation and jurisprudence, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

25.

Decision making or budgets or systems analysis or operations research [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

26.

Quality of healthcare / organization & administration, economics, legislation & jurisprudence, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

27.

Economics [MeSH Major Subject]

28.

Healthcare costs or costs and cost analysis or economics, medical [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

29.

State medicine / organization & administration, economics, standards, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

30.

Resource allocation / organization & administration, economics, standards, supply & distribution, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower, methods [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

31.

Models, theoretical or computing methodologies or communication or Markov chains [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

32.

Professional practice / methods, organization & administration, education, standards, ethics, legislation & jurisprudence, manpower [MeSH Major Subject exploded]

33.

12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25 or 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32

34.

11 and 32