Identifying alternative models of healthcare service delivery to inform health system improvement: scoping review of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe available evidence from systematic reviews of alternative healthcare delivery arrangements relevant to high-income countries to inform decisions about healthcare system improvement.

Design

Scoping review of systematic reviews.

Data sources

Systematic reviews of interventions indexed in Pretty Darn Quick-Evidence.

Eligibility criteria

All English language systematic reviews evaluating the effects of alternative delivery arrangements relevant to high-income countries, published between 1 January 2012 and 20 September 2017. Eligible reviews had to summarise evidence on at least one of the following outcomes: patient outcomes, quality of care, access and/or use of healthcare services, resource use, impacts on equity and/or social outcomes, hea

SUBMITTER: Jessup R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature