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Table 4 Full search strategy

From: Clinical skills development for healthcare practitioners working with patients with persistent physical symptoms (PPS) in healthcare settings: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Host

Database

Search No

Search Term

EBSCO

AMED

MEDLINE

P&BSC

PsychInfo

CINAHL

S1

“persistent physical symptoms” OR “medically unexplained symptoms” OR “functional somatic symptoms”

S2

“training” OR “learning” OR “development”

S3

“service delivery” OR “healthcare provision” OR “quality of care” OR “clinical skills” OR “physician–patient relationship”

S4

S1 AND S2 AND S3

Ovid

EMBASE

S1

(persistent physical symptoms or medically unexplained symptoms or functional somatic symptoms).ab

S2

(training or development or learning).af

S3

(service delivery or healthcare provision or quality of care or clinical skills or physician–patient relationship).af

S4

S1 AND S2 AND S3

-

Scopus

S1

TITLE-ABS-KEY (persistent physical symptoms) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (medically unexplained symptoms) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (functional somatic symptoms)

  

S2

TITLE-ABS-KEY (training) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (development) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (learning)

  

S3

TITLE-ABS-KEY (service delivery) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (healthcare provision) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (quality of care) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (clinical skills) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (physician–patient relationship)

  

S4

S1 AND S2 AND S3

ProQuest

Nursing and Allied Health Source

S1

ab(persistent physical symptoms) OR ab(medically unexplained symptoms) OR ab(functional somatic symptoms

  

S2

training OR development OR learning

  

S3

(service delivery) OR (healthcare provision) OR (quality of care) AND (clinical skills) AND (physician–patient relationship)

  

S4

S1 AND S2 AND S3