Table 1.
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria.
Fig 1.
Flow diagram of literature acquisition leading to final selection of papers for the scoping review.
Table 2.
Themes and sub-themes.
Fig 2.
Sunburst chart of themes and sub-themes.
This sunburst diagram presents the coverage of themes and sub-themes across the evidence base.
Fig 3.
Bar chart displaying the number of papers in the review separated by neurosurgical subspecialty.
Fig 4.
Word cloud of treatments and conditions.
Visual representation of word frequencies associated with neurosurgical treatments and conditions (visualisation performed using NVivo 14).
Fig 5.
World map showing the number of publications by lead author country of origin (Geographic visualisation of citation counts per country was performed using GeoPandas [40]).
Fig 6.
Box plot of sample size variability for studies using interview and focus group methods.
Fig 7.
Line graph of publications over time.
Fig 8.
Line graph of FWCI over time with a value of 1 highlighted representing performing as expected.