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Table 1 Search Strategy: Medline and Embase-Ovid

From: Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review

Search term used

1. Knowledge/ or Knowledge.mp. or Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice/

2. Health perception.mp.

3. Risk perception.mp.

4. 1 OR 2 OR 3

5. Attitude.mp. or “Attitude of Health Personnel”/ or Attitude/ or Attitude to Healt

6. Behaviour.mp.

7. 5 OR 6

8. Clinical practice/Practice Guideline/ or Practice.mp.

9. 4 AND 7 AND 8

10. Implementation.mp.

11. Adherence.mp

12. 10 OR 11

13. Infection control.mp. or Infection Control/

14. Infection prevention.mp.

15. Universal precautions.mp. or universal precaution/

16. Infection control/ or standard precautions.mp.

17. policy/ or Policy.mp.

18. Laboratory safety/ safety/ or biosafety/ or occupational safety.mp.

19. Safety precautions.mp.

20. 13 OR 14 OR 15 OR 16 OR 17 OR 18 OR 19

21. 12 AND 20

22. 9 AND 21

23. Healthcare personnel.mp.

24. Laboratory personnel.mp.

25. Medical laboratory personnel.mp.

26. Laboratory specialists.mp.

27. 23 OR 24 OR 25 OR 26

28. 22 AND 27

29. Hospital laboratory/Hospital.mp. or Hospitals/

30. Secondary care.mp. or Secondary Care/

31. 29 OR 30

32. 28 AND 31

33. Qualitative research.mp. or Qualitative Research/

34. Mixed methods.mp.

35. 33 OR 34

37. 32 AND 35