Inclusion and exclusion criteria for scoping review of emergency ambulance clinician involvement in out-of-hospital births
| Inclusion | Exclusion | |
| Participants | Birthing parents who have an out-of-hospital birth requiring emergency ambulance clinician assistance. | Obstetric patients/partners who were treated by emergency ambulance clinicians for non-birth-related conditions. Planned home births with a midwife in attendance and emergency ambulance clinician assistance is not requested. |
| Concept | Birth. Imminent birth and/or immediate postpartum care by emergency ambulance clinicians. | Non-birth related events. |
| Context | Out-of-hospital emergency care. Attendant is an emergency ambulance clinician. High-income countries as classified by the World Bank.28 | Births in hospitals or birthing clinics. Transfers between institutions post-birth for either birth parent or neonate (eg, no emergency ambulance clinician involvement with birth process). Low–medium-income countries as classified by the World Bank.28 |
| Source of evidence | Peer-reviewed. Full text. | Opinion articles, textbooks, articles without an abstract, abstracts only without full article, conference papers, letters to the editor, policy documents. |
| Language | English, translated to English. | Not in English. |
| Time | No limited will be applied to the timeframe of reviewed articles. | N/A |