Once a clinician, always a clinician: a systematic review to develop a typology of clinician-researcher dual-role experiences in health research with patient-participants

Hay-Smith, E. Jean C.; Brown, Melanie; Anderson, Lynley; Treharne, Gareth J.

doi:10.1186/s12874-016-0203-6

Table 1 Included studies and contribution to themes

From: Once a clinician, always a clinician: a systematic review to develop a typology of clinician-researcher dual-role experiences in health research with patient-participants

Study	Clinical patterns					Connection					Study description
	1-Clinical Queries	2-Agenda Meeting	3-Helping Hands	4-Research or Therapy	5-Uninvited Clinical Expert	6-Clinical Assumptions	7-Suspicion and Holding Back	8-Revelations	9-Overidentification	10-Manipulation	Author (first-person), or sample (empirical) and setting	Methodology
First-person accounts
Arber 2006 [52]			•								Nurse, palliative care	Ethnography
Baarnheilm and Ekblad 2002 [53]		•		•	•	•	•	•	•		Physician, psychiatry	Qualitative
Bailey 2007 [54]			•		•						Nurse, emergency department	Ethnography
Bland 2002 [30]			•		•	•		•		•	Nurse, nursing homes	Ethnography
Bonner and Tolhurst 2002 [26]			•								Nurse, nephrology	Participant observation
Burns et al. 2012 [22]		•	•		•				•		Midwife, postnatal care	Participant observation
Burr 1996 [28]				•				•	•		Nurse, intensive care	Qualitative
Cartwright and Limandri 1997 [55]	•			•	•			•		•	Nurse, elderly care	Grounded Theory
Clancy 2007 [39]	•			•		•				•	Nurse, home oxygen	Phenomenology
Clinton et al. 1986 [37]			•		•			•	•		Nurse, fathering	Multiple time-series survey
Colbourne and Sque 2004 [3]	•			•	•		•		•		Nurse, cancer care	Qualitative case study
Conneeley 2002 [35]	•	•		•	•	•	•		•	•	Occupational therapist, brain injury rehabilitation	Phenomenology
Gardner 1996 [6]		•				•			•	•	Nurse, hospital acquired infection	Qualitative
Groenkjaer 2002 [25]									•	•	Nurse, hospital wards	Critical ethnography
Hamburg and Johansson 1999 [20]		•			•	•			•	•	GP, primary care	Grounded Theory
Houghton et al. 2010 [56]			•		•						Nurse, hospital wards	Multiple case study
Lykkeslet and Gjengedal 2007 [36]					•				•	•	Nurse, surgery	Ethnography
McNair et al. 2008 [1]									•	•	GP, primary care	Critical phenomenology
Mitchell 2011 [29]				•	•			•			Midwife, pregnancy	Qualitative
Newbury 2011 [32]			•	•	•	•	•		•	•	Nurse, palliative care	Grounded theory approach
Nicholl 2007 [57]	•		•		•	•		•			Nurse, mothering	Qualitative
Patterson 1994 [33]		•	•	•					•	•	Nurse, nursing homes	Participant observation
Profitt et al. 1993 [16]	•	•	•		•				•		Nurse, stroke rehabilitation	Randomised trial
Richards and Emslie 2000 [38]	•	•		•		•	•	•			GP, primary care	Qualitative
Shaughnessy et al. 2007 [58]					•			•			Nurse, stroke rehabilitation	Randomised trial
Sterling and Peterson 2005 [34]	•	•	•	•				•	•		Nurse, family systems	Ethnography
Thompson and Russo 2012 [45]				•			•	•	•	•	Clinical psychologist, health settings	Qualitative
Tuffrey-Wijne et al. 2008 [59]				•	•				•		Nurse, learning disability	Ethnography
Empirical reports
Beale and Wilkes 2001 [23]^b	•		•	•	•			•	•		Nurses, various clinical research	Descriptive qualitative
Boase et al. 2011 [31]^a						•			•		Nurses, diabetes research	Framework approach
Boydell et al. 2012 [14]^b and Czoli et al. 2011 [7]^b					•						Physicians, paediatric research	Qualitative
Easter et al. 2006 [18]^c				•	•						Physicians, nurses and patient-participants in gene transfer research	Qualitative
Haigh et al. 2005 [19]^c	•	•		•		•					Nurse, post-surgery patient-participants	Case study
Johnson and Macleod Clarke 2003 [21]^c	•	•		•	•			•		•	Nurses, cancer, HIV/AIDS, dying	Qualitative
Spilsbury et al. 2007 [60]^b			•		•					•	Nurses, pressure mattress overlay research	Qualitative focus group
Wilkes and Beale 2005 [24]^c			•	•							Nurses, various clinical research	Qualitative

Key: ^atrustworthy, ^bmoderately trustworthy, ^ctrustworthiness uncertain, GP = general practitioner

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