Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in reproductive-age women is accompanied by menstrual and fertility disorders and premature menopause. Objective We sought to determine nephrologists' and allied health care providers' perceptions on management of sex hormone status in women with CKD. Methods An anonymous, Internet-based survey was sent to nephrology society members from Canada, Austr...

OBJECTIVE Nationally and internationally there is work underway to continue to advance the scope of practice of allied health assistants (AHA). The advanced role requires additional training and competency development, as well as significant clinical experience. To build on the evidence relating to advanced scope AHAs, ACT Health undertook a project to explore the potential for the development ...

Barbara Harty-Golder is a pathologist-attorney consultant in Chattanooga, TN. She maintains a law practice with a special interest in medical law. She writes and lectures extensively on healthcare law, risk management, and human resource management. The situation involves policymaking based on science and common sense — as well as on law and regulation. Generally, students are entitled to prote...

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...

BACKGROUND Collaboration between primary care personnel and dental personnel to prevent early childhood caries has been established in several countries. The purpose of this study was, firstly, to describe health nurses' experiences and attitudes regarding collaboration with dental personnel, and secondly, to identify characteristic of health nurses and health centres associated with the collab...

Instruction -Allied health Cardiopulmonary science $ 418,174 $ 279,116 $ 19,456 $ 89,754 $ 8,180 $ 18,668 $ 3,000 Child and family services 552,505 376,566 32,029 125,474 2,368 16,068 Communication disorders 979,359 537,795 103,973 193,067 12,378 131,447 699 Occupational therapy 564,624 385,498 33,976 122,160 4,344 18,646 Physical therapy 762,755 486,231 49,573 16...

The Australian health care industry prior to the 1990s was notable for its relative stability and uniformity in relation to organisational design. Since then, new organisational designs have proliferated and a diversity of approaches is evident. The new fluidity in organisational design is particularly evident amongst the allied health professions. The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, to...

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 ...