Economic Search Resources

Large online biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database.

For a sensitive search, use:
(terminally ill patient/ or living will/ or exp attitude to death/ or exp bereavement/ or exp terminal care/ or hospice/ or supportive care.mp. or exp palliative therapy/ or palliat$.tw. or hospice$.tw. or “terminal care”.tw.) and (cost$ or economic$ or fee or fees or price$ or expenditure or budget$ or financial$ or fund or funds or funding).mp.

For a more specific search, use:
((Terminal care or hospice$).mp. or palliat$.tw.) and (cost$.mp. or fee/ or economic$.sh.)

Large online bibliographic database containing broad overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information.

in TITLE-ABS-KEY fields: (palliative care OR terminal care OR end of life care OR bereavement) AND (cost OR costs OR economic). Can limit e.g. to subject areas Medicine / Nursing / Social Sciences / Health Professions.

American Economic Association’s source for economic research citations and abstracts.

(palliative care or terminal care or “end of life care” or “end of life treatment$” or “death and dying” or bereavement or hospice$ or terminally ill or supportive care or advance care plan$ or (end of life and (qaly or health))).mp. AND (cost* or price* or budget* or fund* or spend* or expend* or pricing).mp.

end of life AND cost / palliative care AND cost / terminal care AND cost / hospice and cost

Palliative care: (“palliative care” OR “terminal care” OR hospice OR “end of life” OR bereavement) AND (cost OR costs OR economic OR economics OR fund OR expenditure)

Palliative care: TS=((“palliative care” OR “terminal care” OR hospice OR “end of life care” OR bereavement)) AND TS=(cost OR costs OR economic OR economics)