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Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Radiographer-led discharge for emergency care patients, requiring projection radiography of minor musculoskeletal injuries: a scoping review

Inclusion

Exclusion

Population

 Radiographers

AHP professionals other than radiographers

 Advance practitioners

Any advanced practitioner who is not a radiographer

Concept

 Radiographer-led discharge for projection radiography

Discharge by any other professionals

Alternative types of discharge i.e. from the body

Other modalities than projection radiography

Context

 Emergency department

GP or outpatient setting. Other healthcare sources which are not acute

 Accident and emergency

 Emergency medicine

Additional eligibility requirements

 Articles published post 2000

Articles published pre 2000

 Studies within the UK NHS

Private healthcare

 Patients with minor injuries

Patients with major trauma

 Imaging of appendicular skeleton only

Imaging of the axial skeleton