Improving primary care referral to specialist services: a protocol for a 10-year global systematic review in the Australian context.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Barriers to accessing specialist services impart a significant burden on patient outcomes and experience as well as a cost and administrative burden on health systems due to healthcare wastage and inefficiencies. This paper outlines the planned protocol for a systematic review relating to how health systems perform with regard to patient access to specialist care, and the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving this.

Methods and analysis

Systematic review of the literature will be carried out on publications retrieved by searching the following electronic literature databases: EBSCOhost Megafile Ultimate (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Academic Search Ultimate, APA Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO), HealthSource), PubMed

SUBMITTER: Ekanayake SKDM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465904 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature