Table 3.

Summary of included studies

First author	Year	Country	Methodology	Legally available care area	Profession	Sample size
Botes [29]	2000	South Africa	Qualitative	Reproductive health	RN	n = 1200 (open-ended questionnaire) and 22 focus groups
Bouthillier [34]	2019	Canada	Qualitative	Medical assistance in dying	Physician	n = 22 individual interviews
Clymin [32]	2012	Washington, USA	Mixed Methods (qualitative analysis of open text responses)	Physician-assisted dying	RN	n = 582
Curlin [31]	2008	Illinois, USA	Qualitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 19
Dawson [27]	2017	South Wales, Australia	Qualitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 28 and one focus group
Diniz [33]	2014	Brazil	Mixed Methods	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 1690 quantitative
						n = 50 qualitative
Escher [36]	2000	Switzerland	Quantitative	Genetic testing	Physician	n = 259 (response rate of 64%)
Harris [23]	2011	USA	Quantitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 1154 (response rate of 66%)
Holt [22]	2017	USA	Quantitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 744 (response rate of 29%)
Marek [24]	2004	California, USA	Quantitative	Reproductive health	RN	n-75 (response rate of 49%)
Nordberg [21]	2014	Norway	Qualitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 7 individual interviews
Seelig [25]	2006	USA	Quantitative	Reproductive health	Physician	n = 419 (response rate 53%)
Smith [35]	2017	Australia	Qualitative	Organ procurement	RN	n = 35 individual interviews
Stevens [28]	2017	Massachusetts, USA	Quantitative	End-of-Life, Physician-assisted dying, reproductive health	RN	n-297 (response rate 42%)
Tilburt [30]	2013	USA	Quantitative	Reproductive healtha	Physician	n = 1032 (response rate 54%)
Willems [26]	2000	Oregon (USA) & Netherlands	Qualitative	End-of-Life, Physician-assisted dying, Euthanasia	Physician	n = 152 in Oregon
						n = 67 in the Netherlands

^aStudy included two care areas: Reproductive health and Euthanasia. As euthanasia is not legal in all US jurisdictions, data used from the reproductive health findings only