Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Residential or nursing homes

• Adults living in the above accommodation type

• All types/methods of research or publication, including grey literature, apart from dissertations/theses

• Studies relating to pain assessment and/or management

• Outcomes relating to pain management effectiveness (e.g. pain level alteration, QoL, well-being outcomes, mood, behaviour, barriers or facilitators etc.)

• Any geographical location

• Publication within last 10 years (to relevance to current practice)

• People living at home, in hostels (with minimal supervision or care), in sheltered housing, hospices, or under long stay hospital care

• Dissertations/theses (due to typical length, and resource limitations)

• Publications or reports where an English language translation is not available

• Studies that do not focus on pain assessment or management (e.g. prevalence of pain only)

• Outcomes that do not relate to pain management

• Studies or reports without outcomes (e.g. protocols)

• Studies examining pain assessment tool development or validity as sole focus