Dietetic staffing in Australian general hospitals.

In order to ascertain the existing and required staffing patterns of Australian dietitians, the 190 general hospitals in Australia which claim to provide an on premises dietetic service were surveyed. The questionnaire was directed to the dietitian in charge at each hospital. The 97 responses have been analysed to produce a histogram of hospital versus beds, histograms of hospitals versus required and existing dietitians, a correlation matrix for staffing predictors, regression analysis of staffing versus the predictors, a discussion of variance, and other results.