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Table 1 Search syntax and keywords for Medline

From: Health system evaluation in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches and methods

Key word

Medline

Conflict-affected countries

1. MeSH terms ("warfare and armed conflicts"/ or exp armed conflicts/)

2. Conflict* adj3 (affected or zone or zones or Armed or Political or Violent)).mp

3. (War or Wars or Warfare or Rebel* or revolution* or Uprising* or Insurgen* or Complex emergenc*).mp

4. (Political instability or Political unrest).mp

5. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4

Health system

1. MeSH terms ("Delivery of Health Care"/)

1. Public Health Systems Research/

2. (system* adj3 (care* or health* or healthcare*)).mp

3. 6 or 7 or 8

Evaluation

1. MeSH terms (Program Evaluation/ or Evaluation Study/)

1. MeSH terms Health Impact Assessment/

2. MeSH terms Process Assessment, Health Care/

3. (health* adj3 (process* or assess* or effect* or impact* or sustain* or qualit* or measure* or evaluat*)).mp

4. 10 or 11 or 12 or 13

5. 5 and 9 and 14

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