Search strategy for electronic databases
| ID | Search terms |
| PubMed | |
| #1 | (task*[tiab] OR task-shifting[tiab] OR referr*[tiab] OR referral and consultation[mh] OR role*[tiab]) AND (health personnel[mh] OR doctor[tiab] OR doctors[tiab] OR clinician[tiab] OR clinicians[tiab] OR physician[tiab] OR physicians[tiab] OR ‘healthcare provider’[tiab] OR ‘healthcare providers’[tiab] OR ‘health care provider’[tiab] OR ‘health care providers’[tiab] OR pharmac*[tiab] OR apothecar*[tiab] OR chemist*[tiab] OR dispensar*[tiab]) |
| #2 | randomiZed controlled trial[pt] OR controlled clinical trial[pt] OR randomiZed controlled trials[MeSH] OR random allocation[MeSH] OR double-blind method[MeSH] OR single-blind method[MeSH] OR clinical trial[pt] OR clinical trials[MeSH] OR (‘clinical trial’[tw]) OR ((singl*[tw] OR doubl*[tw] OR trebl*[tw] OR tripl*[tw]) AND (mask*[tw] OR blind*[tw])) OR random*[tw] OR research design[mh:noexp] OR prospective studies[MeSH] OR control*[tw] OR volunteer*[tw]) OR observational[tw] OR non-random*[tw] OR nonrandom*[tw] OR before after study[tw] OR time series[tw] OR cohort*[tw] OR cross-section*[tw] OR prospective*[tw] OR retrospective*[tw] OR research design[mh:noexp] OR follow-up studies[MeSH] OR longitud*[tw] OR evaluat*[tiab] OR pre-post[tw] OR (pre-test[tw] AND post-test[tw]) NOT (animals[MeSH] NOT human[MeSH]) |
| #3 | (HIV Infections[MeSH] OR HIV[MeSH] OR hiv[tiab] OR hiv-1[tiab] OR hiv-2*[tiab] OR hiv1[tiab] OR hiv2[tiab] OR hiv infect*[tiab] OR HIV[tiab]OR human immune deficiency virus[tiab] OR human immuno-deficiency virus[tiab] OR human immune-deficiency virus[tiab] OR ((human immun*) AND (deficiency virus[tiab])) OR acquired immunodeficiency syndromes[tiab] OR acquired immune deficiency syndrome[tiab] OR acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome[tiab] OR acquired immune-deficiency syndrome[tiab] OR ((acquired immun*) AND (deficiency syndrome[tiab)]) or ‘sexually transmitted diseases, viral’[mh]) OR HIV[tiab] OR HIV/AIDS[tiab] OR HIV-infected[tiab] OR HIV[title] OR HIV/AIDS[title] OR HIV-infected[title] |
| #4 | (HAART[tiab] OR ART[tiab] OR cART[tiab] OR antiretroviral[tiab] OR anti-retroviral[tiab] OR anti-viral[tiab] OR antiviral[tiab] OR ‘Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active’[Mesh]) |
| #5 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4 |
| Scopus | |
| (HIV OR HIV/AIDS OR AIDS OR ‘HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY’ OR ‘ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY’) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (TASK-SHIFTING OR TASKSHIFTING OR (TASK* AND SHIFT*) OR TASK* OR (REFERR* AND (NURSE* OR PHARMAC*))) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (ANTIRETROVIRAL OR ANTI-RETROVIRAL OR ART OR CART OR HAART) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (RANDOM* OR RANDOMIZED OR RANDOMISED OR TRIAL OR COHORT* OR GROUP* OR COMPAR* OR OBSERVATIONAL OR PROSPECTIVE* OR RETROSPECTIVE* OR ‘SYSTEMATIC REVIEW’ OR ‘META-ANALYSIS’) | |
| Web of Science | |
| (TS=(HIV OR HIV/AIDS OR AIDS OR ‘HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY’ OR ‘ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY’) AND TS=(TASK-SHIFTING OR TASKSHIFTING OR (TASK* AND SHIFT*) OR TASK* OR (REFERR* AND (NURSE* OR PHARMAC*))) AND TS=(ANTIRETROVIRAL OR ANTI-RETROVIRAL OR ART OR CART OR HAART) AND TS=(RANDOM* OR RANDOMIZED OR RANDOMISED OR TRIAL OR COHORT* OR GROUP* OR COMPAR* OR OBSERVATIONAL OR PROSPECTIVE* OR RETROSPECTIVE* OR ‘SYSTEMATIC REVIEW’ OR ‘META-ANALYSIS’)) OR (TI=(HIV OR HIV/AIDS OR AIDS OR ‘HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY’ OR ‘ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY’) AND TI=(TASK-SHIFTING OR TASKSHIFTING OR (TASK* AND SHIFT*) OR TASK* OR (REFERR* AND (NURSE* OR PHARMAC*))) AND TI=(ANTIRETROVIRAL OR ANTI-RETROVIRAL OR ART OR cART OR HAART) AND TI=(RANDOM* OR RANDOMIZED OR RANDOMISED OR TRIAL OR COHORT* OR GROUP* OR COMPAR* OR OBSERVATIONAL OR PROSPECTIVE* OR RETROSPECTIVE* OR ‘SYSTEMATIC REVIEW’ OR ‘META-ANALYSIS’)) | |
| CENTRAL | |
| HIV* OR HIV-1* OR HIV-2* OR HIV1 OR HIV2 OR HIV INFECT* OR HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS OR HUMAN IMMUNEDEFICIENCY VIRUS OR HUMAN IMMUNE-DEFICIENCY VIRUS OR HUMAN IMMUNO-DEFICIENCY VIRUS OR HUMAN IMMUN* DEFICIENCY VIRUS OR ACQUIRED IMMUNEDEFICIENCY SYNDROME(AIDS) OR ACQUIRED IMMUNEDEFICIENCY SYNDROME OR ACQUIRED IMMUNO-DEFICIENCY SYNDROME OR ACQUIRED IMMUNE-DEFICIENCY SYNDROME OR ACQUIRED IMMUN* DEFICIENCY SYNDROME in Title, Abstract, Keywords and (TASK-SHIFTING OR TASKSHIFTING OR (TASK* AND SHIFT*) OR TASK* OR (REFERR* AND (NURSE* OR PHARMAC*))) in Title, Abstract, Keywords and ANTIRETROVIRAL OR ANTI-RETROVIRAL OR ART OR cART OR HAART in Title, Abstract, Keywords | |
| WHO Global Health Library | |
| (TASK-SHIFTING OR TASKSHIFTING OR (TASK* AND SHIFT*) OR TASK* OR (REFERR* AND (NURSE* OR PHARMAC*)) AND (HIV* OR human immunodeficiency) AND (antiretroviral OR anti-retroviral))) OR (HIV AND task-shifting) OR (HIV* AND task* AND shift*) | |