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Burton CR, Rycroft-Malone J, Williams L, et al. NHS managers’ use of nursing workforce planning and deployment technologies: a realist synthesis. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2018 Nov. (Health Services and Delivery Research, No. 6.36.)

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Appendix 6Example search strategy

Iterative search 5: allocation or assignment of nursing staff

Search performed in MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost, from 1950 to current):

  1. (MH ‘Personnel Staffing and Scheduling’)
  2. AB ( assignment* or allocation or caseload or workload or ‘nurse:patient ratio*’ or ‘nurse-patient ratio*’ or scheduling or reallocation or ‘time allocation*’ ) OR TI ( assignment* or allocation or caseload or workload or ‘nurse:patient ratio*’ or ‘nurse-patient ratio*’ or scheduling or reallocation or ‘time allocation*’ )
  3. (MH ‘Specialties, Nursing+’) OR (MH ‘Nursing’) OR (MH ‘Nurses+’) OR (MH ‘Nursing Staff, Hospital’) OR (MH ‘Nursing Staff’) OR (AB ( nurs* or RN ) OR TI ( nurs* or RN ) )
  4. (MH ‘Workload’)
  5. (1 and 2 and 3) or (4 and 2 and 3)
  6. Post 1983 = 1786 results, search run on 9 November 2016
  7. Seventeen articles chosen for inclusion and another 17 articles from citation-searching on these articles.
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