Table 2 Study inclusion and exclusion criteria

Include studies:

(a) pertaining to, describing or involving a health research partnership;

(b) involving the development, use and/or assessment of a health research partnership outcome or impact assessment tool (or element/property of a tool), as an aim of the study (and inclusive of multi-tool or toolkit studies and studies involving frameworks/models when accompanied by a tool);

(c) that are accessible and amenable to full text review;

(d) reporting primary research findings drawn from empirical evidence;

(e) reporting relevant abstractable data;

(f) of any design type, that meet eligibility criteria

Exclude studies that:

(a) do not meet the definition of a health research partnership;

(b) involve researcher–researcher or interprofessional (non-researcher inclusive) healthcare team partnerships;

(c) do not involve the development, use and/or assessment of a health research partnership tool (or element/property of a tool), as an aim of the study;

(d) are not available or amenable to full text review;

(e) report head-to-head tool comparisons without separately reporting tool-specific findings;

(f) do not report primary research findings drawn from empirical evidence;

(g) lack adequate or relevant abstractable data