Provisional selection Criterion
| Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
| Literature on hand, upper limb or upper extremity injuries and return to work or work transition. | Literature on polytrauma which includes the hand, upper limb or upper extremity injuries and successful return to work or successful work transition. |
| Studies with adults (aged 18 to 65 years) who are working within the open labour market or in sheltered employment. | Conference abstracts on work-related transitions after a hand injury. |
| Studies involving participants with a variety of possible work-related outcomes ranging from returning to the same job in the same capacity to having to find alternative employment. | |
| At least one author must be an occupational therapist or the intervention in the article must directly refer to those used by occupational therapists. |