Table 1.

Criteria for inclusion of studies in the review

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
• Articles which described performance evaluation in any	• Articles which focused only on nurses or doctors
• allied health discipline or health in general, at any level (e.g. individual, departmental)	• Commentaries, conference abstracts and non-peer reviewed literature
• Literature reviews, primary studies (e.g. quantitative, qualitative), and discussion papers
• English articles
• Articles published between 2000-2013