MEDLINE and CINAHL Search Strategy for NHS Patient Harm Policy Review

England's National Health Service is the focus of this scoping review on laws and policies supporting healthcare providers' response to patient harm. The dataset contains the search strategy used to identify 121 records, including 63 peer-reviewed articles and 58 grey literature pieces, published between 2000 and 2025. Author Naomi Assame published the 5.5 KB Excel file on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate the literature search for a systematic review based on the documented MEDLINE and CINAHL strategy.
• Analyze the relationship between legal systems and healthcare policies based on the review's thematic findings.
• Study the impact of organizational culture on policy implementation based on the review's conclusions.
• Identify grey literature sources for NHS policy research based on the included records.

Strengths

• Search strategy is explicitly documented for replication.
• Includes 121 records spanning both peer-reviewed (63) and grey literature (58) sources.
• Covers a 25-year time range from 2000 to 2025.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 5.5 KB file size indicates a very limited scope, likely containing only the search strategy and metadata.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Naomi Assame.

Collection Method

Scoping review methodology with searches in MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Westlaw, followed by citation tracking.

Time Range

2000-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:34:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (specifically the National Health Service)