Table 1.

Source of potential reporting items and Delphi panellists in the Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care programme of research

Source	Target group sampling method	Numbers	Items	Volunteers for Delphi
Online survey 2021*	International PC research community Producers and users of PC research Purposive and snowball† sampling	255 respondents 24 nations 60% physicians 56% North American	X	X
Online survey 2021‡	Practicing PC clinicians—sees patients≥half-time Physician, nurse/Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, psychologist, social worker, pharmacist Purposive and snowball† sampling	252 respondents 29 nations 88% physicians 55% women	X	X
Literature review 2021§	Scoping review on PC research reporting Systematic review of seven databases	25 papers included/2847 titles screened	X
Editor interviews	Editors of journals regularly publishing PC research	9/11 journals	X
Academic meetings	Research presentations (oral, poster), open meetings Australian Association for Academic Primary Care—2019, 2021 North American Primary Care Research Group—2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Society of Academic Primary Care—2020 WONCA Europe—2021		X	X

*Phillips et al.⁴

†Lewis-Beck et al.¹⁹

‡Phillips et al.³

§Phillips et al.²

PC, primary care; WONCA, World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.