ReviewThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2002
Economic approaches to doctor/nurse skill mix: problems, pitfalls, and partial solutions.
Review in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comparing the cost of nurse practitioners and GPs in primary care: modelling economic data from randomised trials.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006Pooled it
- Systematic review of whether nurse practitioners working in primary care can provide equivalent care to doctors.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002Pooled it
- Impact of nurse practitioners on workload of general practitioners: randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004Trial
- How does the quality of care for type 2 diabetic patients benefit from GPs-nurses' teamwork? A staggered difference-in-differences design based on a French pilot program.International journal of health economics and management · 2023Article
- Skill-mix change and the general practice workforce challenge.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
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Abstract
Against a background of government calls for a radical change in the way the medical workforce is planned and trained, the concept of skill mix seeks to match clinical presentation to an intervention based on an appropriate level of skill and training. Health economics is not the only framework within which these changes can be analysed. However unless the economic issues are thought through clearly there is a danger that resources may be used inefficiently. The aims of this paper are to outline the economic issues in the area of doctor/nurse skill mix and the problems of obtaining correct solutions from the perspective of efficiency. It concludes by offering a pragmatic framework which can facilitate decisions in this area. Although this paper is written from the perspective of primary care, it is equally relevant to skill mix in the secondary care sector.
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