Population |
Adults (18 years+) post‐stroke in any care location, e.g. acute care, rehabilitation, nursing home, own homes
Family members/relatives of adults post‐stroke |
Diseases/conditions other than stroke
General rehabilitation (i.e. not stroke specific)
Where the focus is on stroke health professionals and not the patient with stroke or family |
Interventions |
Any intervention that describes its underpinning philosophy as patient‐centred (PC)
Any intervention that describes its underpinning philosophy using synonyms of PC such as ‘client‐centred’ |
Psychotherapy/counselling
Pharmaceutical interventions/treatments
(clinical) assessment of family functioning, i.e. where the approach is clinical rather than PC and the intervention is standard procedure, i.e. not personalized |
Study design |
Any – except those in exclusion criteria |
Literature review
Single case study
Discussion/view point paper
Guidelines/‘how to’ documents
Value/policy statement
News item |
Outcomes |
Any outcome that describes itself as patient‐centred
Any outcome that describes itself using synonyms of PC |
Quality of life measures
Patient satisfaction measures
Self‐reported health status measures |