Skill mix in primary care—creating a bibliography

✍ Scribed by Michelle Sergison

• Book ID: 104462614
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-1834
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2532.1999.00211.x

✦ Synopsis

Skill mix in primary care should be governed by research‐based evidence of how skills may best be distributed among health professionals in order to optimize the cost‐effectiveness of health service delivery. There is a dearth of research in this area, yet many changes in skill mix within primary care have still to be adequately researched. Existing evidence of the nature and cost‐effectiveness of skill mix change is scattered across the specialist literature of many different disciplinary groups, making it difficult to form a coherent overview of service provision. This paper reports on a project that sought to create a comprehensive database bringing together specialist literature relating to skill mix in primary care, as resource for health services researchers, providers and purchasers in the UK.