Table 1.

Narrow inclusion/exclusion criteria (PISO)

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
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