Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria using PICo

PICo	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Participants (P)	Health-care leaders and professionals	Health-care students
Phenomena of interest (I)	Participants' own experiences of compassionate leadership in qualitative studies or perceptions of pre-defined dimensions of compassionate leadership measured in quantitative studies	No documentation on experiences or perceptions of compassionate leadership
Context (Co)	Health-care organisations in any geographic locations
Types of studies	Peer-reviewed original articles published in English, Finnish or Swedish No date limit	All types of reviews, nonoriginal articles and all other publications

Source: Authors’ own work