Returning to clinical work and doctors' personal, social and organisational needs: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This systematic review aims to synthesise existing evidence on doctors' personal, social and organisational needs when returning to clinical work after an absence.

Design

Systematic review using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

Data sources

AMED, BNI, CINAHL, EMBASE, EMCARE, HMIC, Medline, PsycINFO and PubMed were searched up to 4 June 2020. Non-database searches included references and citations of identified articles and pages 1-10 of Google and Google Scholar.

Eligibility criteria

Included studies presented quantitative or qualitative data collected from doctors returning to work, with findings relating to personal, social or organisational needs.

Data extraction and synthesis

Data were extracted

SUBMITTER: Attoe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature