Table 1 Search Strategy

1

exp Terminal Care/ or exp. Palliative Care/ or exp. Terminally Ill/ or ((End adj2 life adj2 care) or EoL care or (terminal* adj2 (care or caring or ill* or disease*)) or palliat* or dying or (Advanced adj3 (disease* or illness*)) or end stage*).ti,ab,kf.

2

(cost: or cost benefit analys: or health care costs).mp.

3

((exp Review Literature as Topic/ or exp. Review/ or (literature adj3 review*).ab,ti.) and ((medline or medlars or embase or pubmed or cinahl or amed or psychlit or psyclit or psychinfo or psycinfo or scisearch or cochrane).ab,ti. or Retracted Publication.pt.)) or Meta-Analysis as Topic/ or Meta-analysis.pt. or (systematic* adj2 (review* or overview)).ab,ti. or ((meta adj1 anal*) or metaanal* or metanal*).ab,ti.

4

1 and 2 and 3

5

limit 4 to (english language and yr = “2000 -Current”)