Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Jun 27, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Jun 26, 2023 - Aug 21, 2023
Date Accepted: Aug 20, 2023
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Policy and management interventions to improve health and care workforce capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic: A Living systematic review protocol
ABSTRACT
Background:
States and health systems had to make challenging resource allocation and capacity-building decisions to promote proper patient care, ensure health and care workers safety and well-being so that they can effectively address the present pandemic as well as upcoming public health problems and natural catastrophes. As innovations are in place and updated evidence is published daily, more information is required to inform the development and implementation of policy and interventions to improve health and care workforce capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Objective:
The objective of this protocol review is to identify countries’ range of experiences with policies and management interventions that can improve health and care workers’ capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic response and synthesize evidence on their effectiveness.
Methods:
A living systematic review of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies and grey literature (technical and political documents) published in English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish between 1st of January 2000 and 1st of March 2022. The databases to be searched are MEDLINE - PubMed, Embase, SCOPUS, and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature. In addition, sources of unpublished studies and grey literature to be searched are WHO’s COVID-19 Research Database and international organizations’ websites [International Labour Organization (ILO), Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and The Health System Response Monitor (HSRM)]. Data will be extracted from the selected documents using an electronic form adapted from the quantitative and qualitative tools for data extraction of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). A convergent integrated approach to synthesis and integration will be used. The risk of bias will be assessed with JBI Critical Appraisal Tools (CAT) and certainty of the evidence in the presented outcomes with Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE).
Results:
The search on database and grey literature retrieved 3378 documents. Data are being analyzed by two independent reviewers. The study is expected to be completed by July 2023, and the results are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Conclusions:
This review will allow us to identify and describe the policies and strategies implemented by countries and their effectiveness, as well as identify gaps in the evidence. Clinical Trial: PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022327041 - www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42022327041
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