Table 1.

Keywords and search strategy

Keywordsa
Population	Patientsb or patients or clients or residents or care receivers or usersc
Intervention	[nursingb or nursing careb or nursing processb or nursing approach or nursing program or nurse or caregiverb or nursing programmec] and [treatment or therapy or intervention or management or reablement or restorative or rehabilitationb or care approach] not [pharmaceutical, medical]
Outcome	functional activity or functional activitiesc or functional status or functional capacity or functional recovery or functional performance or functional autonomy or functional movement or functional decline or functional disability or functional impairment or functional incapacity or functional capacityc or functional inability or functional abilityc or activities of daily livingb or ADL activities or ADL status or ADL functioning or ADL performance or daily activities or daily functioning or ADL or self‐careb or mobility or ambulation or walkingc or mobilizationc

Abbreviation: MeSH, Medical Subject Headings.

^aKeywords were searched in title and/or abstracts (PubMed); in abstract (CINAHL); and in title, abstract, or keywords (Cochrane) by combining Population AND Intervention AND Outcome. Truncation was not used to prevent exploding of results; in Cochrane word variations have been searched.

^bKeywords which were MeSH terms in PubMed.

^cAdditional keywords for CINAHL.