Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria and search string
From: Determinants of patient choice of healthcare providers: a scoping review
| Inclusion criteria | - written in English |
| - concerns factors influencing patient choice or general choice theories regarding choices in health care | |
| - factors focused on are studied from a patient perspective or are determined by means of patient registration data analysis | |
| - does not solely concern the organization of a country’s health insurance system | |
| - reports empirical research (is not a commentary) | |
| - is a scientific paper | |
| Post-hoc exclusion criteria | - reports |
| - studies before 1995 | |
| - studies from non-Western countries | |
| Search string in PubMed | ("patient choice"[TIAB] OR "patients choice"[TIAB] OR "patients' choice"[TIAB] OR "consumer choice"[TIAB] OR "consumers choice"[TIAB]) AND (provider[TIAB] OR providers[TIAB] OR hospital[TIAB] OR hospitals[TIAB] OR physician[TIAB] OR physicians[TIAB] OR doctor[TIAB] OR doctors[TIAB]) |