The table below shows searches within key databases for scholarly published literature relevant to costs of bereavement care. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.
Databases for scholarly information
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Requires institutional subscription
Large online biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database. |
For a sensitive search, use:
(exp lung cancer/ or (lung cancer or lung neoplasm$ or bronchial cancer or bronchial neoplasm$ or lung carcinoma$ or bronchial carcinoma$ or pancoast syndrome or Pancoast tumor$ or Pancoast tumour$).mp. or ((lung$ or pulmonary or bronchus or bronchogenic or bronchial or bronchoalveolar or bronchioalveolar or bronchioloalveolar) and (cancer$ or carcinoma$ or adenocarcinoma$ or malignan$ or metastas$ or tumor$ or tumour$ or neoplasm$)).ti.) and (cost$ 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:
(exp lung cancer/ or (lung cancer or lung neoplasm$ or bronchial cancer or bronchial neoplasm$ or lung carcinoma$ or bronchial carcinoma$ or pancoast syndrome or Pancoast tumor$ or Pancoast tumour$).mp.) and (cost effectiveness analysis/ or cost of illness/ or economic evaluation/ or health care cost/ or (cost of care or costs of care).ti.)
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Scopus
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Requires institutional subscription
Large online bibliographic database containing broad overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information.
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Suggested search:
(TITLE-ABS-KEY(lung neoplasm*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(lung cancer) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(lung carcinoma*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(bronchial carcinoma*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(bronchial neoplasm*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(bronchial cancer) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(pancoast)) AND (cost OR costs OR economic OR expenditure)
Can limit e.g. to subject areas Medicine / Nursing / Social Sciences / Psychology / Health Professions.
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| EconLit |
Requires institutional subscription
American Economic Association's source for economic research citations and abstracts. |
Suggested search terms to use:
(lung neoplasm$ or lung cancer or lung carcinoma$ or bronchial carcinoma$ or bronchial neoplasm$ or bronchial cancer or pancoast).mp. AND (cost$ or price$ or budget$ or fund$ or spend$ or expend$ or pricing$).mp. |
| IDEAS |
Free online
Research in Economics, RePEc, which includes bibliographic metadata from over 1,800 participating archives. |
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| HSRProj - Health Services Research Projects in Progress Database |
Free online.
Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects |
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| NICE Evidence Search |
Free online
UK Health Evidence site. |
Search for Lung Cancer Cost / Lung Carcinoma Cost / Lung Neoplasms Cost |
| Health Systems Evidence |
Free online.
Canadian repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. |
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| Google Scholar |
Free online
Searches published research (articles and books) worldwide |
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| Informit |
Requires institutional subscription.
Australian database covering health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health. Select all databases to cover all aspects. |
Suggested search:
("lung cancer" OR "bronchial cancer") AND (cost OR costs OR economic OR fund OR expenditure) |
| Web of Science |
Requires institutional subscription.
Large database, containing information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. |
Suggested search:
TOPIC: ((cost OR costs OR economic OR fund OR expenditure)) AND TOPIC: (lung cancer OR bronchial cancer OR lung carcinoma OR bronchial carcinoma) |
The table below shows searches across producers of grey literature relevant to health economics, such as government agencies, research centres, health policy related organisations and health care provider organisations. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.
General Searching for grey literature
Selected Health Economics Journals
Learning More about Health Economics Information Resources
The National Library of Medicine (U.S.) provides a free online course on searching for Health Economics Information.
The Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) Information Resources Group provides a free online resource ("vortal") including a section on how to search for Costs and economic evaluation information.
Last updated 14 March 2017