Building a Children's Health Service and System Research Strategy: development and integration in an Australian paediatric healthcare setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health services and systems research (HSSR) strategies dedicated to paediatric health care and service delivery are limited. Strategies are available but are outdated and yet to be optimised for use in a paediatric health system. We aim to describe the development and integration of a Children's Health Service and System Research Strategy (CHSSR-S) in Children's Health Queensland (CHQ), a large specialist quaternary hospital and health service caring for children and young people in Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia.

Methods

The CHSSR-S was developed using an inductive, bottom-up, participatory systems approach across three phases: (1) Identifying local HSSR capacity; (2) Development; (3) Integration. A HSSR "Champion" was appointed to lead all ph

SUBMITTER: Littlewood R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7322850 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature