TABLE 2.
Evaluation criteria used for inclusion and exclusion.
| LOC = location of care | All studies must relate to robots targeted to a physical healthcare setting (i.e., a hospital) |
| NR = Not a robot | A robot is defined as: a physically embodied mechanical device with autonomous features |
| R = Irrelevant | Anything which we could not screen from the title review, but is still irrelevant, including articles not written in English, non-peer reviewed (e.g., dissertations), not original research (e.g., other literature reviews), and published prior to 2018; AND no surgical robots |
| NHI = No human interaction | No human interaction. EITHER robot is not intended to work with humans in some way, such as robots that are intended to passively sense or operate in the background; OR study does not include any data or discussion of Human-Robot Interactions, where clinicians/patients interact with the robot, such as descriptions of engineering efforts, validation of control algorithms, or surveys of opinions |