Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Language	English	non-English
Time period	inception of databases to 2015	none
Population	general public	patients residents in nursing homes/long-term care facilities interventions based solely in clinical settings clinicians and other healthcare staff children (age < 18 years)
Intervention	interventions employing some form of communication	interventions that targeted only prescribing of: antivirals, antimalarials, antifungal agents or antituberculosis agents
Comparison	studies employing a control group	studies that did not employ a control group
Outcome	change in: antibiotic prescribing and/or consumption and/or the public’s antibiotic-related knowledge, attitudes or behaviour	outcomes that were not changes in antibiotic prescribing or consumption and/or changes in antibiotic-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour
Study	RCTs cluster-RCTs quasi-RCTs ITS controlled before-and-after studies	descriptive studies qualitative studies studies that did not employ a control group studies that did not measure outcomes pre- and post-intervention

ITS, interrupted time series.