Methods
We conducted a search of Medline, CINAHL, and Ovid to capture maximum number of scholarly publications in the past five years to capture current state of literature review and we used the terms "P4 medicine" or "P4 health" or "participatory health" or "participatory medicine" as words appearing in either the title of the research publications or as title words to further capture as many publications as possible. Only English language articles and articles published in peer-reviewed publications were considered for inclusion in the review. Fugitive literature (or studies not published in peer-reviewed publications) were not searched using these terms. No attempt was made to search for studies that may have been conducted but not published yet, nor opinion articles in blogs or journals were considered for this section of the paper to ascertain the impact of P4 health care or participatory health care in general practice or family practice or primary care.
Results