Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study selection process of the scoping review
| Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | |
| Concept | Integrated health service delivery system | Article without evidence or discussion on integrated health service delivery (eg, a case report on patients with COVID-19 which recommend implementation of integrated health service delivery, and it did not explore any such systems) |
| Context | Health service organised during COVID-19 pandemic | |
| Population | Low-income countries and lower-middle-income countries | Countries from the upper-middle-income and high-income categories |
| Article type | Original research, case studies or case reports, commentary or editorial, systematic, scoping, or rapid review, research letter | Author’s reply or opinion, research highlight, news or media watch |
| Time frame | 1 December 2019–12 June 2020 | |
| Reporting | Published peer-reviewed articles Articles written in the English language | Article not published in English or without translation |
Low-income economies are defined as Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of $1035 or less in 2019 (n=29). Lower-middle-income economies are defined as GNI per capita $1036 and $4045 (n=50) (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups, accessed 26 April 2020).