Towards sustainable healthcare system performance in the 21st century in high-income countries: a protocol for a systematic review of the grey literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is wide recognition that, if healthcare systems continue along current trajectories, they will become harder to sustain. Ageing populations, accelerating rates of chronic disease, increasing costs, inefficiencies, wasteful spending and low-value care pose significant challenges to healthcare system durability. Sustainable healthcare systems are important to patients, society, policy-makers, public and private funders, the healthcare workforce and researchers. To capture current thinking about improving healthcare system sustainability, we present a protocol for the systematic review of grey literature to capture the current state-of-knowledge and to compliment a review of peer-reviewed literature.

Methods and analysis

The proposed search strategy, based on

SUBMITTER: Braithwaite J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6340467 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature