Evidence for recency of practice standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health practitioner regulators throughout the world use registration standards to define the requirements health practitioners need to meet for registration. These standards commonly include recency of practice (ROP) standards designed to ensure that registrants have sufficient recent practice in the scope in which they intend to work to practise safely. As the ROP registration standards for most National Boards are currently under review, it is timely that an appraisal of current evidence be carried out.

Methods

A systematic review was conducted using databases (including MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycInfo, and CINAHL), search engines, and a review of grey literature published between 2015 and April 2022. Publications included in the review were assessed against the relev

SUBMITTER: Main PAE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951142 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature