Search terms used in main databases
| Database | Search terms |
|---|---|
| PubMed | 1. MeSH Heading = (“Primary Health Care” OR “Physicians, Family” OR “Family Practice”) |
| AND “Cohort Studies” | |
| AND (“Comorbidity” OR Title/Abstract = comorbid* OR Title/Abstract = (co-morbid* OR multimorbid* OR multi-morbid*) | |
| NOT MeSH = (“Intervention Studies”, “Clinical Trials as Topic”, “Cross-Sectional Studies” “Retrospective Studies”) | |
| NOT Publication Type = (“Clinical Trial”) | |
| [Search parameters: humans; all adults aged 19+; studies from 1989 to present when ‘cohort studies’ was introduced as a MeSH term] | |
| 2. As above but instead of ‘cohort studies’: | |
| MeSH heading = (“Follow-Up Studies” OR “Prospective Studies” OR “Epidemiologic Methods”) | |
| [Search parameters: humans; all adults aged 19+; studies up to end 1988] | |
| CINAHL | Headings = Comorbidity OR Keyword = (multimorbid* or multi-morbid*) |
| AND Headings = (Primary Health Care Or Physicians, Family Or Family Practice) | |
| AND Heading = Prospective Studies | |
| NOT ‘trial’ in title | |
| PsycINFO | Descriptors = (general practitioners or family medicine or family physicians or primary health care) |
| AND Descriptors = ((comorbidity) OR Keyword = (“multimorbid*” or “multi-morbid*” or “comorbid*” or “co-morbid*”) | |
| AND Methodology = (Longitudinal study or followup study or prospective study) | |
| NOT Title = (Trial) | |
| ISI Web of Science | Topic = (multi-morbid* OR comorbid* OR co-morbid* or multimorbid*) |
| AND Topic = (Longitudinal stud* OR cohort stud* OR prospective stud* OR cohort stud*) | |
| AND Topic = (Primary Health Care OR Physician*, Family OR Family Practice* OR general practitioner* OR family medicine OR family physician*) | |
| NOT Title = (TRIAL) | |
| NOT Title = (HOSPITAL*) | |
| [Search parameters: timespan = all year; databases = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S] | |
| CSA Conference Papers Index | [KEYWORDS] (Primary health care or family physicians or family practice) |
| AND (“multi-morbid*” or “comorbid*” or “co-morbid*”) | |
| AND (Longitudinal study or cohort study or prospective study) | |
| AND multimorbid* | |
| AND (general practitioners or family medicine or family physicians) | |
| AND (followup study or follow-up study) | |
CPI-S = Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science. SCI-Expanded = Science Citation Index – Expanded. SSCI = Social Sciences Citation Index.