| Cluster (MIP) | MEDLINE | EMBASE | PsychInfo | CINAHL | EUROETHICS | Ancillary search | ||||||
| Methodology | 1 interviews [MeSH] | 1 interview | 1 attitudes | 1 interviews | 1 qualitative research | |||||||
| 2 healthcare surveys [MeSH] | 2 semi-structured interview | 2 interviews | 2 questionnaires | 2 evaluation studies | ||||||||
| 3 focus groups [MeSH] | 3 unstructured interview | 3 qualitative research | 3 qualitative studies | 3 (views or opinions or attitudes or experiences) | ||||||||
| 4 narration [MeSH] | 4 qualitative research | 4 (1 or 2 or 3) | 4 (views or opinions or attitudes or perceptions or experiences or expectations).m_titl. | 4 (1 or 2 or 3) | ||||||||
| 5 questionnaires [MeSH] | 5 open-ended questionnaire | 5 (1 or 2 or 3 or 4) | ||||||||||
| 6 (perceptions or attitudes or opinions or experiences or expectations or views or survey or questionnaire or qualitative) [ti]) | 6 observational method | |||||||||||
| 7 (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6) | 7 (perceptions or attitudes or views or expectations or opinions or experiences).m_titl | |||||||||||
| 8 (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7) | ||||||||||||
| Issues | 8 resource allocation [MeSH] | 9 resource allocation | 5 resource allocation | 6 resource allocation or health resource allocation | 5 resource allocation | Reference check & manual search | ||||||
| 9 healthcare rationing [MeSH] | 10 *health care | 6 health care utilisation | 6 health care rationing | |||||||||
| 10 (8 or 9) | 11 *health care policy | 7 “costs and cost analysis” | 7 (1 or 2) | |||||||||
| 12 *patient care | 8 (5 or 6 or 7) | |||||||||||
| 13 (9 or 10 or 11 or 12) | ||||||||||||
| Participants | 11 ethics [MeSH] | 14 medical ethics | 9 management decision-making | 7 ethics, medical | ||||||||
| 12 ethics [Subheading] | 15 decision-making | 10 ethics | 8 physicians | |||||||||
| 13 decision-making [MeSH] | 16 physician attitude | 11 physicians | 9 physician attitudes | |||||||||
| 14 physician’s role [MeSH] | 17 (14 or 15 or 16) | 12 attitudes | 10 physician’s role | |||||||||
| 15 attitude of health personnel [MeSH] | 13 (9 or 10 or 11 or 12) | 11 decision-making, clinical | ||||||||||
| 16 physician’s practice patterns [MeSH] | 12 physician–patient relations | |||||||||||
| 17 (11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16) | 13 (7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12) | |||||||||||
| 18 (7 and 10 and 17) | 18 (8 and 13 and 17) | 14 (4 and 8 and 13) | 14 (5 and 6 and 13) | 8 (4 and 7) | ||||||||
| No of all references (no included) | 283 (8) | 193 (5) | 59 (0) | 29 (2) | 21 (0) | 29 (1) | ||||||
| Duplicates with MEDLINE | 18 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
*Subject headings were used in a focused modus.
[ti], search term limited to title only;.m_titl., search term limited to title only.