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. 2023 May 2;13(5):e067907. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067907

Table 2.

PICOS table describing inclusion criteria

Component Description
Population
  • Human participants (eg, nurse, pharmacist and other non-medical prescribers, and patients with any health conditions managed by these groups)

  • No restriction on age or gender

Intervention All types of non-medical prescribing (any medicine management activity that is legally and technically considered prescribing and provided by non-medical professionals)
Context
  • All peer-reviewed published articles (in journals and conferences) and grey literature with full-text written in English from 1999 to 2021

  • No restrictions on setting or country

Outcome Cost and consequence outcomes of NMP services provided by nurses, pharmacists and other non-medical prescribers
Study design Original research and clinical trials that evaluated costs and economic impacts of NMP only or both cost and consequence outcomes of NMP (peer-reviewed or grey literature)

NMP, non-medical prescribing.