Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the scoping review of research evidence on task-sharing and paediatric and child health service delivery
Include | Exclude |
|---|---|
Study objective | |
• Evaluate task-sharing interventions • Report task-sharing as norm (service normally delivered by non-physician cadres) | • Use non-physician cadres but do not aim to integrate task-sharing as part of future routine care (e.g. training clinical officers to screen hearing impairment to estimate its prevalence) |
Cadre | |
• Clinical officer • Other non-physician clinician • Nurse • Midwife • Medical assistant | • Community health worker/volunteer • Lay health worker • Health care support staff (without professional regulation) • Patient or family |
Study setting | |
• Hospital • Clinics • Community only if professional involved (community nurses)  In low- and middle-income countries | • Community if managed by lay health worker/community health worker • In high-income countries |
Service population | |
• Children and adolescent • Mixed population but state include children | • Adult • No detailed information on population |
Disease and service | |
• Any paediatrics preventive or curative service | • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) • Emergency obstetric and newborn care • Antenatal and postnatal care • Family planning • Dental service |