Name and institutional affiliation for other authors Diane Stark, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow Cathryn Glazener, Gynaecologist and Reader, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen Lesley Sinclair, Research Fellow, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, Glasgow Ian Ramsay, Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologis...

OBJECTIVE The service type offered by a home care agency contracted by the Queensland government is not based on the qualifications of the worker providing the service, but the service itself. This allows agencies to substitute certain levels and categories of labour in order to provide a service to meet their contract obligations. This study investigated evidence of labour substitution between...

OBJECTIVES To document and describe outpatient persistent pain management services in Australia. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Systematic survey conducted between 1 December 2008 and 31 January 2010 of 57 services providing outpatient care to adult clients with persistent pain, plus five specialised paediatric services throughout Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Service structure, includ...

The aim of this study was to identify what outcome measures or quality indicators are being used to evaluate advanced and new roles in nine allied health professions and whether the measures are evaluating outcomes of interest to the patient, the clinician, or the healthcare provider. A systematic search strategy was used. Medical and allied health databases were searched and relevant articles ...

www.thelancet.com Published online May 9, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31195-9 1 Is the weekend effect a worrying manifestation of systematic deficiencies in the quality and safety of health care, or instead simply an artefact, constructed from confounding, bias, and the imperfections of existing methods for making sense of observational data? This question has not only motivate...

CT has become an invaluable diagnostic tool. The clinical applications and technological capacity of CT has continued to increase. There is an increasing demand for radiology services including during weekend on-call hours. The objective of this study was to assess the trend in weekend CT imaging requests over a ten-year period form 2001-2010. Electronic data was retrieved from the hospital Rad...

True integration requires a shift in all levels of medical and allied health education; one that emphasizes team learning, practicing, and evaluating from the beginning of each students' educational experience whether that is as physician, nurse, psychologist, or any other health profession. Integration of healthcare services will not occur until medical education focuses, like the human body, ...

The allied health workforce is currently in a very exciting and unique position to demonstrate leadership in health care and health workforce reform. Much has been documented regarding the challenges that the healthcare system is currently facing and is likely to face in the coming decades. We know we have an aging population, higher incidents of chronic disease and predicted workforce shortage...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practice and outside allied and community health services and providers. METHODS A review of organizational theory and a qualitative study of 9 practices was used to design an intervention which was applied in four Divisions of General Practice and 26 urban practices. C...

M.N. Sarkies2,3; K.-A. Bowles3,7; E.H. Skinner4,8; D. Mitchell2,6; R. Haas3,7; M. Ho2; K. Salter2; K. May2; D. Markham2; L. O’Brien3,5; S. Plumb1; T.P. Haines3,7 1Melbourne Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2Monash Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Monash Health, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 4Monash University, Allied Hea...