Application of Blockchain and Internet of Things in Healthcare and Medical Sector: Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Table 3

Parameters considered for shortlisting and exclusion of articles.

S. no.	Considered parameters	Shortlisting for inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
1	Period	Articles published on the use of the Blockchain, IoT for healthcare and medical-related applications between the year 2016 and 2020	Articles published before the year 2016 were excluded
2	Type of articles	Articles with implementation results	Review and survey articles, theoretical papers without implementation results
3	Language	Articles are written in the English language	Articles in languages other than English
4	Title, abstract, citations, and journal/conference value and indexing	Articles with their titles and abstracts that match the use of Blockchain and IoT in the Healthcare domain were selected	Firstly, based on the titles, articles were selected and excluded
		Number of citations, value of journal/conference where the article is published is also considered	Then, abstracts of articles shortlisted based on titles were checked for inclusion and exclusion