Table 1 Summary of steps related to bibliographic research

Search terms

(Non-Technical Skills [Title]) AND (Technical Skills [Title]) AND (prehospital) AND (emergency department) OR (Human Factors in emergency) OR (NTS) AND (English[lang]) AND ("1995/01/01" [PDAT]: "2022/10/30"[PDAT])

TI Non-Technical Skills AND TI Technical Skills AND TI prehospital TI emergency department OR AB Human Factors in emergency AND LA English

Human factors in prehospital, human factors in emergency medicine, non-technical skills in prehospital, non-technical skills in emergency medicine, adverse event in emergency medicine and adverse event in prehospital

Databases

PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, Embase, MedlinePlus, Scopus, Ovid MEDLINE and Google Scholar

Inclusion criteria

Original research, primary studies, reports, narrative reviews, systematic review, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, commentary, qualitative studies, textbook and validation studies with relevance for non-technical skills and technical skills in the emergency situation, aviation and aerospace sector, publications in English, time frame 1995–2022, open-access publications and studies available through corporate or university credentials

Exclusion criteria

Publications not in English, publication not in time frame 2000–2022

Expanded inclusion criteria

Literature that was not included in the reporting period and was scientifically relevant was discussed before being excluded

Result

1045 studies, of which 913 were ineligible because they did not meet the inclusion criteria, and the remaining 135 studies were identified as potentially eligible. At the end of the second stage of analysis, 89 studies were excluded because they were either not relevant to the research objective or delved into taxonomies of technical or non-technical skills already included