| MeSH and free-text search terms | Databases searched | Filters or refined by | Sources identified, n |
|---|---|---|---|
| ((primary care or (Primary Health Care or Primary care provider or primary care facility or Primary Care Physicians)).mp. or (Primary Health Care/ or "Continuity of Patient Care"/ or Patient-Centred Care/ or Progressive Patient Care/)) and Social care.mp. | MEDLINE | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English or English Language. | 801 |
| ((primary care or primary health) and social care).mp. | Embase | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English. | 821 |
| 'primary care' and ’social care' (free text AND MeSH terms) | Cochrane Library | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English. | 224 |
| [ "primary care" OR "primary healthcare"] AND [“social care” OR “adult social care"] AND [Location: “united kingdom"' including this term only] | Trip Database | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English. | 12 |
| (primary care or primary health care or primary healthcare or general practice or GP) AND (social care or adult social care) | Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature(CINAHL) | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English.Geographic subset and journals: UK and Ireland. | 458 |
| 'primary care' and ’social care' (free text AND MeSH terms) | Social Care Online | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English | 355 |
| [Primary care OR primary healthcare (Topic) and social care (Topic) | Web of Science (includes search of Social Sciences Citation Index database) | All dates searched.Language: restricted to English.Countries or regions: UK Publications. | 1335 |
| Hand searches | N/A | N/A | 4 |
| Total | 4010 | ||
N/A = not applicable.