Table 1. Eligibility criteria.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Study types: Systematic reviews Scoping Reviews Original reports of wound assessment tool development Validation studies of wound assessment tools	Individual intervention studies in which odour was reported as they are likely to have been captured in systematic or scoping reviews.
Studies that report on any tools or strategies, whether validated or otherwise, to assess for odour in wounds across all aetiologies.	Individual studies of any methodology that assess odour as part of the baseline evaluation or as a primary or secondary outcome. We propose that to identify any individual study in which odour was assessed would be far beyond the scope of this review or any other review. But, we propose that individual studies in which odour was assessed should be captured in any systematic or scoping review on the topic area and we will further review all reference lists of identified reviews to ensure we have retrieved all potentially relevant papers.
Any wound assessment tool, framework, guideline/ clinical practice protocol or instrument that includes assessment of odour. A wound of any aetiology assessed in any care setting.
Time period: No limits on date
Languages: No limits