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Table 2 MEDLINE Database Search

From: The link between the West African Ebola outbreak and health systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone: a systematic review

Number

Search

Results

1

(ebola or EVD or ebolavirus or EHF).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier]

4913

2

Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/

1844

3

1 or 2

4913

4

(Sierra leone or liberia or guinea or west* africa).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier]

163,908

5

Sierra Leone/

853

6

Liberia/

750

7

Guinea/

549

8

Africa, Western/

4467

9

4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8

165,741

10

(health* adj3 (workforce or labo?r or personnel or manpower or staff or leadership or govern* or human resource* or financ* or pay* or expenditure or fund* or manag* or admin* or regulat* or technolog* or service* deliver* or information or research* or surveillance)).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier]

325,886

11

Health Manpower/

11,641

12

Health Expenditures/or Financing, Government/or Financial Management/or Healthcare Financing/or Health Services Accessibility/

100,798

13

“Delivery of Health Care”/

69,493

14

Health Promotion/or Consumer Health Information/or Health Education/or Information Services/

120,760

15

Health Services Research/

32,015

16

“Equipment and Supplies”/

18,766

17

Program Development/or Leadership/or Public Health Administration/or Health Priorities/

75,067

18

Public Health Surveillance/or Population Surveillance/

49,607

19

(Health* system* or WHO building block* or World health organi?ation building block* or surveillance or medical product* or service delivery).mp. [mp = title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, keyword heading word, protocol supplementary concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier]

204,965

20

10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19

790,837

21

3 and 9 and 20

147