A Literature Review on Care at the End-of-Life in the Emergency Department

Table 1

Terms used in the literature review (updated August 2011).

Strategy	MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)	Results
1	“Terminally ill”	7485
2	“Terminal care/or hospice care/or resuscitation orders/or withholding treatment”	30633
3	Attitude to Death/or Terminally Ill/or place of death	16612
4	1 and 2 and 3	2355
5	emergency or Emergencies	172112
6	4 and 5	92
7	Replicated steps 1–6 using EMBASE and PubMed/CareSearch	356