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Table 2 MEDLINE search strategy and main results

From: Primary care-based interventions to address the financial needs of patients experiencing poverty: a scoping review of the literature

Search term

Search term

Search term

No of results

Excluded: not relevant/duplicates

Included for further screening

‘primary care’ AND

‘social determinants of health’

 

389

321

68

‘social welfare’

 

119

112

17

‘social needs’

 

160

136

24

‘social prescribing’

 

44

13

31

‘food insecurity’ AND

‘screening’

42

14

28

‘social needs screening’

 

8

0

8

‘welfare rights’

 

7

0

7

‘housing insecurity’

 

6

6

0

‘income security’

 

5

5

0

‘social assistance’

 

17

17

0

‘link worker’

 

12

12

0

‘primary care’ OR ‘family practice’ OR ‘health cent*’ AND

‘poverty’ AND

‘screening’

394

387

7

‘poverty’ AND

‘intervention’

537

528

9

‘social determinants of health’ AND

‘screening’

97

75

22

‘social determinants of health’ AND

‘intervention’

86

86

0

‘social needs’ AND

‘intervention’

38

36

2

‘housing’ AND

‘intervention’

104

104

0

‘food security’ OR ‘food insecurity’ AND

‘intervention’

387

387

0

‘economic stability’

 

5

5

0

‘employment’ AND

‘intervention’

212

212

0

‘social needs’ AND

‘screening’

31

31

0

Total

  

2700

2487

223