Details of databases consulted and searches
| Databases | Searches | Number of articles |
| Medline | (in TITLE) | Total=204 |
| (including CAB Abstracts—1910–2016 week 47; Embase 1974–2016 week 49; Global Health 1910–2016 week 47; all OvidMedline 1946–present) | policy AND dialogue | After automatically deleting duplicates=132 |
| After manually deleting duplicates=126 | ||
| Medline | (in TITLE) | Total=49 |
| (including CAB Abstracts—1910–2017 week 36; Embase 1974–2017 week 38; Global Health 1910–2017 week 36; all OvidMedline 1946–present) | ‘stakeholder dialogue’ OR ‘multi-stakeholder dialogue’ OR ‘multistakeholder dialogue’ | After automatically deleting duplicates=32 |
| After manually deleting duplicates=23 | ||
| CINHAL | (in TITLE) | Total=81 |
| (including Anthropology+International Political Science Abstracts+Public Administration Abstracts+Social sciences abstracts+remove Medline citations) | policy AND dialogue | After automatically deleting duplicates=75 |
| After manually deleting duplicates=74 | ||
| PubMed | (in TITLE) | Total=44 |
| policy AND dialogue | ||
| Web of Science | (in TITLE) | Total=227 |
| policy AND dialogue | ||
| Scopus | TITLE (‘policy dialogue’) | Total=365 |
| Primary documents=74 | ||
| Secondary documents=291 | ||
| After automatically deleting duplicates=331 | ||
| Total | Total=802 | |
| After automatically deleting duplicates=731 | ||
| After manually deleting duplicates=592 |