From: Catchments of general practice in different countries– a literature review
Criteria | Category | Number | Total number in the category | Percentage of total studies |
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What is the major theme in the article as outlined in the title?: | Literature review | 4 | 102. | 100% |
Measurement as the key theme in the research study. | 16. | Â | Â | |
Spatial access as the key theme | 30. | Â | Â | |
The role of markets, and competition between catchments of general practice, in primary health care. | 23 | Â | Â | |
The Neighbourhood as the focus of the research inquiry. | 10. | Â | Â | |
The role of patients choice as the focus of the study. | 9 | Â | Â | |
Studies in relation to access issues in primary health care. | 6. | Â | Â | |
Other issues of methods and scale. | 4. | Â | Â | |
What Spatial scales are applied in the article? | Neighbourhood. | 9 | 75 | 73.5% |
Region/metropolitan | 36 | Â | Â | |
Rural | 10 | Â | Â | |
State/National | 10 | Â | Â | |
Multi-scale | 10 | Â | Â | |
What Indicators and measures & data sources are used ? | Socio-economic/demographic/Ethnicity/Census data./population cohorts at regional, state, national (inc postcode data) | 31 | 75 | 73.5% |
 | Patient registrations./lists/retail clinics | 9 |  |  |
 | Multiple/various (Including Medicare data, other health care data. | 20 |  |  |
Observational studies/cohorts/surveys | 5 | Â | Â | |
Other large data sets – GP workforce data sets | 10 |  |  | |
What are the GIS methods, if any, applied in the paper | 2 SFCA method | 26 | 43 | 42.1% |
Other methods of GIS (including those referenced in Table 2) | 19 |  |  | |
What specific Population cohorts, if any, were used in the study? | Elderly | 2 | 32 | 31.4% |
Ethnic groups | 2 | Â | Â | |
Rural | 7 | Â | Â | |
Immigrants. | 4 | Â | Â | |
Urban/Neighbourhoods | 14 | Â | Â | |
People with disabilities | 1 | Â | Â | |
Out of hours groups | 2 | Â | Â | |
What Access issues/Primary health care were referred to in the paper? (including non-spatial factors) | Reform/politics | 14 | 77 | 75.5% |
Workforce | 10 | Â | Â | |
Spatial equity/Accessibility/Access to care | 20 | Â | Â | |
Patient choice/consumers/registration | 7 | Â | Â | |
Health inequalities | 12 | Â | Â | |
Socio-organisational/Practice characteristics | 7 | Â | Â | |
Access to retail clinics | 5 | Â | Â | |
What was the country of origin of study | USA | 35 | 102. | 100% |
Canada | 6 | Â | Â | |
UK | 17 | Â | Â | |
 | France | 5 |  |  |
Switzerland | 3 | Â | Â | |
Germany | 2 | Â | Â | |
Singapore | 3 | Â | Â | |
Australia | 11 | Â | Â | |
New Zealand | 4 | Â | Â | |
Europe (several countries in same paper) | 8 | Â | Â | |
Not specified | 8 | Â | Â |