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Search Blocks for Prehospital and Emergency Care

Text blocks for use in EBSCO and OVID interfaces.

BAME

EBSCO - MEDLINE and CINAHL

  • Copy (Ctrl C) and Paste (Ctrl V) into EBSCO
  • MEDLINE  - Number of hits – April 2025 - 346.073
  • CINAHL - Number of hits – April 2025 - 108,254

S1 (BAME OR BME OR (Black Asian N1 minority ethnic) OR minority ethnic* OR ethnic minorit* OR (racial N5 disparit*) OR (ethnic N5 disparit*) OR (people N1 color) OR (people N1 colour) OR POC OR racial* minorit*  OR Race Factor* OR mixed race OR mixed racial OR minorit* or ethnic* group*) AND (indian subcontinent OR Black British OR bangladeshi* OR bengali* OR indian* OR chinese OR pakistani* OR african* OR gyps* OR irish traveller* OR roma OR arab* OR afro caribbean OR african caribbean OR afrocaribbean OR afro-caribbean OR south asian* OR refugee* OR migrant* OR immigrant* OR asylum seeker* OR Jew*)

S2 *MINORITY GROUPS/ OR *MINORITY HEALTH/ OR *BLACK PEOPLE/ OR *ASIAN PEOPLE/ OR *ETHNICITY/ OR *INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/ OR *OCEANIANS/ OR *ETHNIC AND RACIAL MINORITIES/

S1 OR S2

OVID - EMBASE and EMCARE

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  • EMBASE  - Number of hits – April 2025 - 174,290
  • EMCARE - Number of hits – April 2025 - 63,254

S1 (BAME OR BME OR (Black Asian ADJ1 minority ethnic) OR minority ethnic* OR ethnic minorit* OR (racial ADJ5 disparit*) OR (ethnic ADJ5 disparit*) OR (people ADJ1 color) OR (people ADJ1 colour) OR POC OR racial* minorit*  OR Race Factor* OR mixed race OR mixed racial OR minorit* or ethnic* group*) AND (indian subcontinent OR Black British OR bangladeshi* OR bengali* OR indian* OR chinese OR pakistani* OR african* OR gyps* OR irish traveller* OR roma OR arab* OR afro caribbean OR african caribbean OR afrocaribbean OR afro-caribbean OR south asian* OR refugee* OR migrant* OR immigrant* OR asylum seeker* OR Jew*)

S2 *"MINORITY GROUP"/ OR *"MINORITY HEALTH"/ OR *"BLACK PERSON"/ OR *"ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP"/ OR *"BRITISH ASIAN"/ OR *"ETHNIC GROUP"/ OR *"BLACK RACE"/ OR *"BLACK POPULATION"/ OR "MULTIRACIAL PERSON"/ OR "BLACK PERSON"/ OR *"INDIGENOUS PEOPLE"/ OR *"ASIAN AMERICAN"/ OR *MIGRANT/ OR *"OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP"/ OR *"ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS"/ OR *"RACE DIFFERENCE"/ OR *"ETHNIC DIFFERENCE"/

S1 OR S2

Updated 03 April 2025