Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Method	• Stated to be using ethnographic methods of any kind	• Meta-ethnography or meta-synthesis • Scoping review or other review methodologies • Interviewing or observational work alone without reference to ethnographic lens
Subject matter	• Studies relating to healthcare topics or from an applied healthcare discipline, as defined by the specific search terms	• Public health topics (health promotion, screening, vaccination, communicable disease management,  etc.) • Health-related topics that are not within health service context, such as  o self-management techniques, care homes, social care, peer support groups, refugee centres, day care, community interventions, prisons  o health beliefs, cultural attitudes, patient views, disease experiences  o trial acceptability, research acceptability o ethnography related to basic science • Social care • Organisational studies that are not situated in health service settings • Studies about ethnographic methodology with no specific reference to health or healthcare
Study design	• Peer-reviewed publications • Studies that state their use of ethnographic methods	• Commentary, letter, response, critical review • Book review