Table 1.

Units of analysis included in this review

Study	Journal	Running head	Subspecialty/grade
Sharma et al (2008)21	Psycho-Oncology	Stress and burnout in colorectal and vascular surgical consultants	Surgery/consultants
Ramirez et al (1996)22	Lancet	Mental health of hospital consultants: the effects of stress and	Surgery, gastro, oncology, radiology consultants
Wall et al (1997)23	British Journal of Psychiatry	Minor psychiatric disorder in NHS trust staff: occupational	Non-specific
Ramirez et al (1995)24	British Journal of Cancer	Burnout and psychiatric disorder among cancer clinicians	Oncology/consultants
Sharma et al (2007)25	Colorectal Disease	Stress and burnout among colorectal surgeons and	Surgery/consultants
Kapur et al (1999)26	Family Practice	Sources of job satisfaction and psychological distress in	GP, medical house officer
Guthrie et al (1999)27	BJPsych Bulletin	Sources of stress, psychological distress and burnout	Psychiatry/non-specific
Benbow & Jolley (2002)28	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry	Burnout and stress amongst old age psychiatrists	Psychiatry/consultants
Orton et al (2012)29	BMJ Open	Depersonalised doctors: a cross-sectional study of 564 doctors	GP
McManus et al (2002)30	Lancet	The causal links between stress and burnout in a longitudinal study of UK	Non-specific
Kirwan & Armstrong (1995)31	British Journal of General Practice	Investigation of burnout in a sample of British general practitioners	GP
Kapur et al (1998)32	BMJ	Psychological morbidity and job satisfaction in hospital consultants	Consultants/junior HO
Coomber et al (2002)33	British Journal of Anaesthesia	Stress in UK intensive care unit doctors	Intensive care/consultants
Applet on et al (1998)34	British Journal of General Practice	A survey of job satisfaction, sources of stress and psychological	GP
Newbury-Birch & Kamali (2001)35	Postgraduate Medical Journal	Psychological stress, anxiety, depression, job satisfaction	Junior HO
Cartwright et al (2002)36	Journal of Clinical Pathology	Workload and stress in consultant medical microbiolo- gists	Microbiology/virology consultants
Caplan (1994)37	BMJ	Stress, anxiety, and depression in hospital consultants, general	Consultants (non-specific), GP
Burbeck et al (2002)38	Emergency Medicine Journal	Occupational stress in consultants in accident and emergency	Emergency medicine/ consultants
Soler et al (2008)39	Family Practice	Burnout in European family doctors: the EGPRN study	GP
Bogg et al (2001)40	Medical Education	Training, job demands and mental health of pre- registration	Pre-registration HO
Upton et al (2012)41	Surgery	The experience of burnout across different surgical specialties	Surgery/consultants
Sochos & Bowers (2012)42	The European Journal of Psychiatry	Burnout, occupational stressors, and social support in psychiatric	Psychiatry, medicine/ senior HO
McManus et al (2004)43	BMC Medicine	Stress, burnout and doctors' attitudes to work are determined	Non-specific
Paice et al (2002)44	Medical Education	Stressful incidents, stress and coping strategies in the pre-registration	Pre-registration HO
Tattersall et al (1999)45	Stress Medicine	Stress and coping in hospital doctors	Non-specific
McManus et al (2011)46	BMC Medicine	Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional	Non-specific
Deary et al (1996)47	British Journal of Psychology	Models of job-related stress and personal achievement among	Consultants
Thompson et al (2009)48	The Clinical Teacher	Contemporary experience of stress in UK foundation doctors	Foundation doctors
Berman et al (2007)49	Clinical Medicine	Occupational stress in palliative medicine, medical oncology	Oncology and palliative medicine registrars
Taylor et al (2005)50	Lancet	Changes in mental health of UK hospital consultants	Consultants

GP, general practitioner; HO, house officer.