Method
Before starting the review, all authors agreed upon the eligi- bility criteria, search strategy, study selection, data extraction, and quality assessment. The review process was reported ac- cording to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Re- views and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) standards [24].
Eligibility Criteria
Studies were considered to be eligible, when they examined the association between physicians’ occupational well-being and the quality of patient care. This resulted in the following eligibility criteria. First, the study included empirical data; non-empirical articles, such as letters, comments, and
editorials, were excluded. Second, physicians had to comprise the entire sample or results had to be available for physicians as a subgroup. Third, in order to study our research question on the impact of occupational well-being on patient care qual- ity, we included only articles that conceptualized occupational well-being as predictor or exposure variable and patient care quality as the outcome variable. Non-English language arti- cles were not included.