Example PubMed search string
| Concept | Search string |
| Nursing homes | ‘nursing home’[MeSH] OR ‘nursing home’[TIAB] OR ‘nursing homes’[MeSH] OR ‘nursing homes’[TIAB] OR ‘residential home*’[MeSH] OR ‘residential home’[TIAB] OR ‘caring home*’[TIAB] OR ‘home for the aged’ [MeSH] ‘home for the aged’ [TIAB] OR ‘long term care’[MeSH] OR ‘long term care’[TIAB] OR ‘senior housing’[TIAB] OR ‘assisted living facilities’[MeSH] OR ‘assisted living facilities’[TIAB] OR (senior[TIAB] OR geriatric[TIAB] OR elderly[TIAB] OR aged[TIAB] OR elder[TIAB] ‘older adults’[TIAB]) AND (housing[TIAB] OR living[TIAB]) |
| Technology-based Interventions | ‘technology’[MeSH] OR ‘technology’[TIAB] OR ‘eHealth’[TIAB] OR ‘telemedicine’[MeSH] OR ‘telemedicine’[TIAB] OR ‘tele-medicine’[MeSH] OR ‘tele-medicine’[TIAB] OR ‘telehealth’[TIAB] OR ‘tele-health’[TIAB] OR ‘connected health’[TIAB] OR ‘digital health’[TIAB] OR ‘mHealth’[TIAB] OR ‘mobile health’[TIAB] |
| Randomised controlled trials | randomized controlled trial[PT] OR randomized controlled trials as topic[MH] OR random allocation [MH] OR double-blind method[MH] OR single-blind method[MH] OR random*[tw] OR ‘Placebos’[MeSH] OR placebo[TIAB] OR ((singl*[tw] OR doubl*[tw] OR trebl*[TW] OR tripl*[TW]) AND (mask*[TW] OR blind*[TW] OR dumm*[TW])) |
| COVID-19 | ((coronavirus OR ‘corona virus’ OR coronavirinae OR coronaviridae OR betacoronavirus OR covid19 OR ‘covid 19’ OR nCoV OR ‘CoV 2’ OR CoV2 OR sarscov2 OR 2019nCoV OR ‘novel CoV’ OR ‘wuhan virus’) OR ((wuhan OR hubei OR huanan) AND (‘severe acute respiratory’ OR pneumonia) AND (outbreak)) OR ‘Coronavirus’[Mesh] OR ‘Coronavirus Infections’[Mesh] OR ‘COVID-19’[Supplementary Concept]OR ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2’[Supplementary Concept]OR ‘Betacoronavirus’[Mesh]) |