Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criterion

	Inclusion criterion	Exclusion criterion
Type of studies	Peer reviewed empirical studies and reviews, masters and PhD thesis, protocols, conference-proceedings	Non-empirical studies
	All study designs, including qualitative and quantitative research and reviews	Political documents, opinion papers and books
	English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish language
User groups	User group should have an acute single-insult neurological injury (ABI)	Progressive neurological conditions
	Adult user group (> 18 years)	Patients with underlying brain injury, but where the focus is on other incidences or diagnoses
	Users that are being discharged home from hospital/rehabilitation ward in a subacute rehabilitation stage*	Chronic patients**
Type of interventions	Discharge rehabilitation service (in a subacute rehabilitation stage*)	Single-professional therapeutic interventions***
	Home-based or community-based rehabilitation	Long-term rehabilitation**
	Studies describing a service model	Interventions limited to specific part function-training***
		Psychometric analysis and studies validating assessment tools and test instruments
		In-hospital/institutional rehabilitation services*
		Care services that do not define as rehabilitation***

*We were particularly interested in models that target the transfer from in-hospital care to home. We have therefore limited the inclusion to involve studies that describe services that address this phase of rehabilitation pathway

**Services that address long-term follow up in a chronic phase are not included. There is no uniform consensus on the term chronic. In this study, a cut off for studies with an onset after 6 months after injury was set.

*** WHOs [115] definition of rehabilitation sounds ‘a set of measures that assist individuals who experience, or are likely to experience, disability to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction with their environments’. This definition, in addition to the more refined Norwegian definition guides our interpretation of rehabilitation: ‘Habilitation and rehabilitation must be based on the individual situation and goals of the individual patient and user. Habilitation and rehabilitation are targeted collaborative processes in various arenas between patient, user, relatives, and service providers. The processes are characterized by coordinated, coherent and knowledge-based actions. The purpose is that the individual patient and user, who have or are at risk of being restricted in their physical, mental, cognitive, or social functioning, should be given the opportunity to achieve the best possible functional- and coping ability, independence and participation in education and working life, socially and in the society’ (https://helsedirektoratet.no/Retningslinjer/Hjerneslag). Compensating care services and traditional domiciliary care that do not aim for optimization of function, coping abilities and societal participation will therefore be excluded.