Table IV.

Eligibility criteria.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Article focused on trauma and orthopaedic surgical specialities.	Articles focusing on other clinical specialities.
Research using a qualitative methodology or approach at any point in the study process, including nominal group, focus group, open-ended questionnaire, interviews, and data collected in participants’ own words.	Research solely using patient-reported outcome measures as a form of participant feedback data.
Research using either patients or clinicians or healthy volunteers in participant sample.
Systematic literature reviews, scoping reviews, editorial, and opinion articles using or discussing qualitative research or qualitative methods.