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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Patient satisfaction with physician assistant/associate care: an international scoping review

Criterion

Inclusion

Exclusion

Time period

1968 to 2019

Studies outside these dates

Language

English

Non-English studies were eligible for inclusion (none found)

Type of article

No limits were placed on the peer-reviewed literature type. Must include PAs as focus.

Exclude if PAs were grouped together with another health professional such as an NP and could not be separately analyzed.

Study focus

Patients were asked or surveyed as to how they regarded their care or experience with a PA.

The definition of a PA includes those formally trained as a PA.

 

Population and sample

Patients that had an encounter with a PA.

Other health professionals if they were merged together with PAs, e.g., NPs, nurses, and technicians.