Group practice impacts on patients, physicians and healthcare systems: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the advantages and disadvantages that group practices have on patients, physicians and healthcare systems.

Study design

A scoping review was performed based on the methodology proposed by Arksey and O'Malley, and refined by Levac et al. Titles and abstracts were screened by two reviewers. A quantitative analysis was performed to assess the type, year and region of publication, as well as the population studied. A qualitative descriptive analysis was performed to identify common themes.

Study setting

MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane databases were searched from database inception to October 2018 for papers which assessed outcomes relevant to the research question.

Results

Our search strategy returned 2408 papers and 98 were included in t

SUBMITTER: Zwiep T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7798803 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature