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Abstract
Objective: The objective of this review is to identify and map the available literature on how allied health assistants are utilized in Australia.
Introduction: Allied health assistants have the potential to increase service delivery output for the allied health workforce; however, barriers to successful implementation remain across allied health contexts. Identifying and mapping the clinical contexts in which relevant literature exists can i) identify the scope of parameters defining the allied health assistant role specific to practice contexts/settings and ii) inform development of evidence-based training for both allied health professional and assistant programs.
Inclusion criteria: This review will include peer-reviewed and gray literature in which allied health assistant services are implemented. Literature that deals with supervision, organizational planning, and therapeutic outcomes will be considered for inclusion.
Methods: The review will follow the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and will be reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost), MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost), Health and Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health (Gale Onefile), Scopus, Web of Science, and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) will be systematically searched for published research. We will also hand-search reference lists from relevant papers and sources of gray literature. The review will include work based in Australia and published in English with full-text availability. Findings will be presented graphically to support visual analysis, accompanied by a narrative summary.
Review registration: Open Science Framework https://osf.io/mhb4v.
目的：本综述的目的是确定和绘制关于澳大利亚如何利用专职卫生助理的现有文献。简介：专职卫生助理有潜力增加专职卫生工作人员的服务输出；然而，在联合卫生环境中，成功实施的障碍仍然存在。识别和绘制相关文献存在的临床环境可以i)确定确定特定于实践环境/环境的专职医疗助理角色的参数范围，ii)为专职医疗专业人员和助理项目的循证培训提供信息。纳入标准：本综述将包括同行评议和灰色文献，其中实施了联合卫生助理服务。涉及监督、组织计划和治疗结果的文献将被纳入考虑。方法：该综述将遵循JBI范围评价方法，并将使用范围评价的系统评价和元分析扩展首选报告项目（PRISMA-ScR）进行报告。CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost), MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost), Health and Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health (Gale Onefile), Scopus, Web of Science，语言学和语言行为摘要（ProQuest）将被系统地搜索已发表的研究。我们还将手工检索相关论文和灰色文献来源的参考文献列表。该审查将包括基于澳大利亚的工作，并以英文出版，并提供全文。调查结果将以图形形式呈现，以支持视觉分析，并附有叙述性摘要。评审注册：Open Science Framework https://osf.io/mhb4v。
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