Table 4.

Inclusion/exclusion criteria and main justification.

Item	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria	Main justification
Timespan	All articles from 2008 onwards	Articles published before 2008	Papers published in the last decade.
Language	Papers written in English	Papers not written in English	English is the working language of the reviewers
Paper focus	Papers which provide evidence on: • Person-Centered care • Patient-Centered care • Ethics/relational ethics	Papers which do not provide evidence on person-centered care, patient-centered care, ethics/relational ethics.	This criterion is justified by the review questions
Research type	Papers based on primary research	Papers not based on primary research Opinion articles	This criterion is justified by the review questions
Publication type	Papers/articles published in peer-reviewed journals based on both theoretical and empirical research	Website documents, media articles and other non-research documents Books and book chapters, dissertations, research reports, conference proceedings	Website documents, media articles and other non-research documents were excluded because they do not offer research-based evidence Books and book chapters, dissertations, research reports, conference proceedings were excluded to avoid a large volution of publications
Research area	Papers within the areas of: medicine; nursing; social sciences; psychology; health professions; biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology; neuroscience; dentistry; pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics;	Papers whose research area is different from the listed ones	To avoid the inclusion of papers not pertinent to aim of this work.