There are four evidence documents associated with each literature review:

Literature Reviews. Provide a comprehensive systematic review and description of the evidence.

Evidence tables. These detail all the included studies and provide an assessment of the evidence for each research question of the literature review.

Considered judgement forms. Outline the evidence base and expert opinion used to develop the recommendations and good practice points for each literature review research question. Also detailed are the benefits, potential harms, feasibility of implementation, value judgements, intentional vagueness, and exceptions associated with the recommendations and good practice points.

Executive Summary. These give an overview of the scope of the literature review, key highlights and notable changes to recommendations and good practice points. They highlight any major changes to NIPCM content expected as a result of a literature review update. A full list of the recommendations and good practice points are provided in the executive summary.