The implications of the feminization of the primary care physician workforce on service supply: a systematic review

Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Publication Details
Published between January 1990 and January 2013; published in English	Published before January 1990 or after January 2013; published in a language other than English
Participants/Population
PCPs (studies focusing on all physicians were included only if results pertaining to PCPs were presented separately)	Other physician specialties; all physicians, where separate analysis for PCPs is not presented
Comparison
Male to female PCPs¹	Does not compare male and female physicians
Outcome Measures
A measure of one or more of the following: time spent working, intensity of work, scope of work, or practice characteristics²	None of time spent working, intensity of work, scope of work, or practice characteristics
Design
Original research	Editorials, comments or commentaries, letters; reviews articles; reports with no primary data analysis

¹Specialist physicians (such as pediatricians, or general internists) who may practice like PCPs on occasion (that is acting as a point of entry to the health care system, providing person-focused care over time, and acting as a coordinator for care provided elsewhere) were not included.
²Raw or adjusted results for one or more of these measures must be presented. If these measures were included as covariates in a multivariate modeling exercise (for example, for income), the study was excluded unless raw comparisons on one of these outcomes are also presented.
PCP, primary care physician.

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