Physicians shortage in primary care: a protocol for updating a systematic review of recruitment and retention strategies
Federico Contu, Giulia Cossu, Barbara Bitti, Diego Primavera, Puja Verma, Viviana Forte, John Ford, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Federico Contu, Ana Isabel González González, Federico Contu · 2026
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Federico Contu and co-authors published this study protocol in 2026, setting out a plan to update a systematic review on the shortage of primary care doctors. Earlier reviews listed many ways to recruit and keep these doctors, but the evidence was scattered, dated, and uneven across countries.
The planned review will search MEDLINE, Embase, and CENTRAL for studies from February 2015 onward, with no language limits. Two reviewers will screen studies, extract data, and judge bias risk on their own. Main outcomes are how many doctors are recruited or kept, and for how long. The team will group findings by type of program, career stage, and setting, so policy makers can see which approaches work best where.
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| CREATOR | Federico Contu, Giulia Cossu, Barbara Bitti, Diego Primavera, Puja Verma, Viviana Forte, John Ford, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Federico Contu, Ana Isabel González González, Federico Contu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51814 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |