Table 1 Inclusion and 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