Availability and quality of publicly available health workforce data sources in Australia: a scoping review protocol.

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 Australia

SUBMITTER: Gillam M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044942 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature