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Table 1 Search strategy

From: Reported burden on informal caregivers of ICU survivors: a literature review

Database

Search terms

PubMed

Participant

Mesh

Caregivers; family; spouses; family health; proxy

ICU

Mesh

Critical care; critical illness; intensive care units; intensive care

Exclusion

Mesh

Intensive care, neonatal; intensive care units, pediatric; intensive care units, neonatal; child; infant; infant, newborn; child, preschool

CINAHL

Participant

Mesh

Family; caregiver burden; caregivers; spouses; family health

ICU

Mesh

Critical care; critical illness; intensive care units

Exclusion

Mesh

Intensive care, neonatal; intensive care units, pediatric; intensive care units, neonatal; neonatal intensive care nursing; pediatric critical care nursing; child; infant; infant, newborn; child, preschool