Skill mix in primary care--creating a bibliography.
Skill mix in primary care should be governed by research-based evidence of how skills may best be distributed among health professionals in order to optimize the cost-effectiveness of health service delivery. There is a dearth of research in this area, yet many changes in skill mix within primary care have still to be adequately researched. Existing evidence of the nature and cost-effectiveness of skill mix change is scattered across the specialist literature of many different disciplinary groups, making it difficult to form a coherent overview of service provision. This paper reports on a project that sought to create a comprehensive database bringing together specialist literature relating to skill mix in primary care, as resource for health services researchers, providers and purchasers in the UK.
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Huddersfield NHS Trust, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Lindley, UK.
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011361:Professional Competence; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce