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Availability and quality of publicly available health workforce data sources in Australia: a scoping review protocol
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Availability and quality of publicly available health workforce data sources in Australia: a scoping review protocol
BMJ Open, Vol.10(1), p.e034400
2020
PMID: 31969370
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Abstract
Introduction
The health workforce is an integral component of the healthcare system. Comprehensive, high-quality data on the health workforce are essential to identifying gaps in health service provision, as well as informing future health workforce and health services planning, and health policy. While many data sources are used in Australia for these purposes, the quality of the data sources with respect to relevance, accessibility and accuracy is not clear.
Methods and analysis
This scoping review aims to identify and appraise publicly available data sources describing the Australian health workforce. The review will include any data source (eg, registry, administrative database and survey) or document reporting a data source (eg, journal article, report) on the Australian health workforce, which is publicly available and describes the characteristics of the workforce. The search will be conducted in 10 bibliographic databases and the grey literature using an iterative process. Screening of titles and abstracts will be undertaken by two investigators, independently, using Covidence software. Any disagreement between investigators will be resolved by a third investigator. Documents/data sources identified as potentially eligible will be retrieved in full text and reviewed following the same process. Data will be extracted using a customised data extraction tool. A customised appraisal tool will be used to assess the relevance, accessibility and accuracy of included data sources.
Ethics and dissemination
The scoping review is a secondary analysis of existing, publicly available data sources and does not require ethics approval. The findings of this scoping review will further our understanding of the quality and availability of data sources used for health workforce and health services planning in Australia. The results will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences targeted at health workforce and public health topics.
Details
- Title
- Availability and quality of publicly available health workforce data sources in Australia: a scoping review protocol
- Creators
- Marianne Gillam (Corresponding Author) - University of South AustraliaMatthew Leach - Southern Cross UniversityJessica Muller - University of South AustraliaDavid Gonzalez-Chica - University of South AustraliaMartin Jones - University of South AustraliaKuda Muyambi - University of South AustraliaSandra Walsh - University of South AustraliaEsther May - University of South Australia
- Publication Details
- BMJ Open, Vol.10(1), p.e034400
- Publisher
- B M J Group
- Identifiers
- 991012856397102368
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article