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Table 2 Search strategy for HRIS literature in bibliographic databases

From: Information systems on human resources for health: a global review

General search term

Additional search terms

Health personnel

(health and personnel or health manpower or workforce or human resource or labor market), or health care worker or nurse or physician or midwife or midwives or laboratory technologist or laboratory technician or laboratory worker or laboratory professional or lab technologist or lab technician or lab worker or lab professional or pharmacist or health worker or clinical officer

Information system

tracking or informatic or distribution or database or (labor or work or human resource or employ or personnel or staff), (system or program or data or surveillance) or (labor or work or human resource or employ or personnel or staff) or geographic information systems or resource allocation or workplace or databases, factual or Public Health Informatics or Health Care Rationing or “Personnel Staffing and Scheduling” or (tracking or informatic or distribution or database or information system) or (labor or work or human resource or employ or personnel or staff), (system or program or data or surveillance or supply or vacant)

HRIS

workforce tracking system or HRIS or human resource information system or human resources survey or human resource cohort studies or workforce surveillance system or labor market survey or workforce capacity or human resources surveillance or (health facility surveys and human resource) or (regulatory board data and employer data)

Health care worker and tracking

(health care worker or health worker or nursing or nurse or physician or midwife or midwives or laboratory technician or laboratory worker or laboratory professional or lab technologist or lab technician or lab worker or lab professional or pharmacist or clinical officer) (tracking or informatic or distribution or database or information system or supply)