How can the healthcare system deliver sustainable performance? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing health costs, demand and patient multimorbidity challenge the sustainability of healthcare systems. These challenges persist and have been amplified by the global pandemic.

Objectives

We aimed to develop an understanding of how the sustainable performance of healthcare systems (SPHS) has been conceptualised, defined and measured.

Design

Scoping review of peer-reviewed articles and editorials published from database inception to February 2021.

Data sources

PubMed and Ovid Medline, and snowballing techniques.

Eligibility criteria

We included articles that discussed key focus concepts of SPHS: (1) definitions, (2) measurement, (3) identified challenges, (4) identified solutions for improvement and (5) scaling successful solutions to ma

SUBMITTER: Zurynski Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125771 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature