Table 1.

SPIDER table of study inclusion and exclusion criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Sample	• Surgical teams (any members including surgeons, trainee surgeons, anaesthetists, surgical nurses, surgical pharmacists etc.) • Secondary care setting including wards; out-patient clinics; theatres etc.	• Non-surgical specialities • Other care settings, e.g. primary care; dentists • Veterinary studies
Phenomenon of interest	• Antimicrobial/antibiotic prescribing behaviour (treatment and/or prophylaxis)	• Prescribing behaviour related to other medication classes
Design	• Qualitative or mixed-method studies reporting primary qualitative data collected using qualitative methods (e.g. through direct observation; focus groups or interviews)	• Studies that report quantitative data only including questionnaire studies with open-ended free text questions
Evaluation	• Qualitative analysis of antimicrobial prescribing behaviour (using any qualitative evaluation, e.g. grounded theory; and framework analysis)	• Studies that evaluate using quantitative methods only • Studies that do not explicitly state the method of analysis
Research type	• Peer-reviewed journal articles • Full text available • English language	• Reviews; protocols; theoretical work; editorials; opinion pieces and grey literature • Non-English language