From: Using staffing ratios for workforce planning: evidence on nine allied health professions
Reference | Quality score* | Study Type | Country | Setting | Brief Description |
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AH Rehab CC (2007)[21] | 1 | Focus group | Australia | Rehabilitation | Consensus statement on required numbers of allied health to staff rehabilitation facilities treating various categories of patients |
Aust. Fac. Rehab. Med. (2005) [22] | 2 | Non-systematic synthesis | Australia | Rehabilitation | Discussion paper estimating staffing numbers required for rehabilitation facilities |
Br Diabetic Assn (1999) [29] | 1 | Position statement | Britain | Diabetes services | Provides recommendations for core staffing levels required for specialist diabetes services. |
Burton et al (2005) [33] | 2 | Audit | Australia | Rehabilitation | Audit of psychologist numbers in ten hospitals in the rehabilitation sector of Victoria. All services reported under-staffing. |
Christie (2006) [30] | 2 | Audit/benchmark | Canada | Acute hospital | Identification of physiotherapy and occupational therapy FTEs per bed over time in medical and surgical wards. |
Gill (2007) [28] | 2 | Model | Australia | Chronic kidney disease | Model for provision of community based services for patients with chronic kidney disease via extended scope roles for dieticians and nurses. |
Henley et al (2006) [25] | 2 | Non-systematic synthesis | Australia and New Zealand | Emergency department | Provides guidelines to the function and operations of acute MAPUs attached to hospital emergency departments. |
McMillan & Ledder (2001) [23] | 4 | Audit | Britain | Neuro-rehabilitation | Survey of staffing in adult neuro-rehabilitation teams in south-east England. High incidence of staff stress due to the case-loads. Little is offered for those with psycho-social disability for example few teams contain neuro-psychologists. |
Meyer et al (2002) [32] | 6 | Audit | Australia | All | University of Wollongong study of the dietetic workforce of New South Wales from 1984 to 2000. |
Mudge, et al (2006) [24] | 4 | Controlled trial | Australia | Acute hospital | Controlled trial in an acute general setting of the effect of increased levels of multidisciplinary intervention. 1538 medical in-patients were assigned either to routine care or to care with three times the amount of allied health professional time. Resulted in significantly reduced in-hospital mortality and functional decline and improvement in patients' ratings of their health status |
PA Hospital (2004) [26] | 2 | Pre-post study | Australia | Emergency department | In house survey of a trial of the use of AHPs (OTs, PTs and STs) in the Emergency Dept of a tertiary hospital for a period of 4 months over winter. Project made considerable cost savings for the hospital by avoiding in-patient admission for 117 patients over the period of the trial. |
Ridoutt et al (2006) [15] | 3 | Literature review and focus group analysis | Australia | All | Aimed to identify current methods of quantifying AHP workload capacity and to profile the AHP workforce requirements. Recommended the use of a procedures based workload measurement tool. This tool would be useful in settings with set or routine treatments e.g. rehabilitation, community settings. |