Harper-McDonald Bruce, Baguley Fiona
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University.
Lecturer, Public Health/Community, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Br J Community Nurs. 2018 Nov 2;23(11):544-549. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2018.23.11.544.
This systematic literature review aims to identify and appraise current evidence to establish if caseload profiling (CP) provides a strategy to support district nurses to evidence and manage increasingly complex caseloads. A total of 17 studies where thematically synthesised and recurrent themes were identified and summarised under the headings of: defining caseload profiling; caseload profiling in the context of caseload management; workload analysis and its relationship to caseload profiling; potential impact of caseload profiling; and potential barriers to caseload profiling. The literature review showed CP is a robust method of articulating the complexity of care and practitioners could use it to help manage their own caseloads. However, the literature is mainly founded on expert opinion and further research is needed to strengthen the validity of the evidence.
本系统文献综述旨在识别和评估当前证据，以确定病例组合概况分析（CP）是否提供了一种策略，以支持社区护士为日益复杂的病例组合提供证据并进行管理。总共对17项研究进行了主题综合分析，并在以下标题下识别和总结了反复出现的主题：定义病例组合概况分析；病例组合管理背景下的病例组合概况分析；工作量分析及其与病例组合概况分析的关系；病例组合概况分析的潜在影响；以及病例组合概况分析的潜在障碍。文献综述表明，病例组合概况分析是阐明护理复杂性的一种有力方法，从业者可以使用它来帮助管理自己的病例组合。然而，现有文献主要基于专家意见，需要进一步研究以加强证据的有效性。
