Table 2.

Search strategy

Included criteria	Independent nurse prescribers practicing in primary/community care
	Supplementary nurse prescribers practicing in primary/community care
	V100 prescribers
	V150 prescribers
	V300 prescribers
Excluded criteria	Other prescribing groups: doctors, physicians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, radiographers, podiatrists/chiropodists, optometrists, dentists
	Patient perspectives
	Non-medical prescribing leads/managers
	Non-prescribing colleagues
	Nurse prescribers not practicing in primary/community care
	Studies not available in English
	Studies conducted pre-1999
	Wholly quantitative methodologies
	Non-peer reviewed journals
Search terms
P (population)	Nurse/Nurses/Nursing (Nurs*) Health Visitor/Health Visiting (‘Health Visit*’) District Nurse/District Nursing (‘District Nurs*’) Community Nurse/Community Nursing (‘Community Nurs*’) Primary Care (‘Primary Care*)
I (issue)	Prescriber/Prescribers/Prescribing (Prescrib*)
E (Effect/method)	Qualitative