Table 1 results of electronic database searches
Database | Hits | Of some relevance | Included in review |
|---|---|---|---|
Ageinfo | 5 | 1[34] | 1[34] |
British Humanities Index | 67 | 0 | 0 |
CINAHL | 99 | 6[35–40] | 1[40] |
Embase | 141 | 7[25, 37, 41–45] | 4[25, 42–44] |
Health Management Information Consortium | 38 | 14[14, 36–38, 40, 42, 43, 45–47] | 4[14, 40, 42, 43] |
Health Financials Evaluations Database | 0 | 0 | 0 |
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | 113 | 0 | 0 |
MDX health | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Medline | 286 | 15[25, 34, 36, 38, 41–45, 48–53] | 5[25, 34, 42–44] |
PAISArchive | 82 | 0 | 0 |
PAISInternational | 83 | 2[54, 55] | 0 |
PsycINFO | 686 | 3[41, 53, 56] | 0 |
Science citation index | 150 | 8[25, 37, 41–45, 57] | 5[25, 42–44, 57] |
SIRS researcher | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Social science citation index | 237 | 7[36–38, 41–43, 45] | 2[42, 43] |
Social Services Abstracts | 147 | 3[36, 38, 58] | 0 |
Sociological Abstracts | 293 | 2[59, 60] | 0 |
Zetoc | 0 | 0 | 0 |