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search terms used at St Basillisa's

Below are the search terms used in the general searches available at St Basillisa's using the expanded term. These terms can be copied and pasted directly into the PubMed search box.

The "general palliative care" search term below is intended to gather material from the PubMed database using broad terms relevant to palliative care. The origins of this search are described in "search introduction" where some of its limitations are also discussed.

search terms used at St Basillisa's
	These terms can be copied and pasted directly into the PubMed search box.
This is the general palliative care search term.	palliat* OR terminal care OR terminally ill OR hospice* OR "end of life" OR advance directives OR advance care planning OR withholding treatment OR bereavement OR grief OR attitude to death OR life support care OR death[mh:noexp]
PubMed translates the query into this.	To see how PubMed translates this term run the search from here and click on the "Details" tab on the PubMed result page.
This recovers articles from a collection of palliative care specific journals.	"Am J Hosp Palliat Care"[Journal] OR "Am J Hosp Care"[Journal] OR "BMC Palliat Care"[Journal] OR "Hosp J"[Journal] OR "Int J Palliat Nurs"[Journal] OR "J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother"[Journal] OR "J Palliat Care"[Journal] OR "J Palliat Med"[Journal] OR "J Support Oncol"[Journal] OR "Palliat Support Care"[Journal] OR "Palliat Med"[Journal] OR "Support Care Cancer"[Journal] OR “J Pain Symptom Manage"[Journal]
Searches the collection of general medical journals using the general palliative care search term.	(palliat* OR terminal care OR terminally ill OR hospice* OR "end of life" OR advance directives OR advance care planning OR withholding treatment OR bereavement OR grief OR attitude to death OR life support care OR death[mh:noexp]) AND ("Ann Intern Med"[Journal] OR "Arch Intern Med"[Journal] OR "BMJ"[Journal] OR "Br Med J"[Journal] OR "Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)"[Journal] OR "CMAJ"[Journal] OR "JAMA"[Journal] OR "Lancet"[Journal] OR "J Lancet"[Journal] OR "N Engl J Med"[Journal] OR "Postgrad Med"[Journal] OR "Postgrad Med J"[Journal])

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Created Sept 2006

Updated 19 July 2007