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Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol
BACKGROUND: Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative m...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36879324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02198-1 |
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author | Leslie, Kathleen Myles, Sophia Adams, Tracey L. Schiller, Catharine Shelley, Jacob Nelson, Sioban |
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description | BACKGROUND: Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for health profession regulators have included providing practice guidance for virtual care, changing entry-to-practice requirements to include digital competencies, facilitating interjurisdictional virtual care through licensure and liability insurance requirements, and adapting disciplinary procedures. This scoping review will examine the literature on how the public interest is protected when regulating health professionals providing virtual care. METHODS: This review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology. Academic and grey literature will be retrieved from health sciences, social sciences, and legal databases using a comprehensive search strategy underpinned by Population-Concept-Context (PCC) inclusion criteria. Articles published in English since January 2015 will be considered for inclusion. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts and full-text sources against specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Discrepancies will be resolved through discussion or by a third reviewer. One research team member will extract relevant data from the selected documents and a second will validate the extractions. DISCUSSION: Results will be presented in a descriptive synthesis that highlights implications for regulatory policy and professional practice, as well as study limitations and knowledge gaps that warrant further research. Given the rapid expansion of virtual care provision by regulated health professionals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mapping the literature on how the public interest is protected in this rapidly evolving digital health sector may help inform future regulatory reform and innovation. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: This protocol is registered with the Open Science Framework (10.17605/OSF.IO/BD2ZX). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13643-023-02198-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-99868612023-03-06 Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol Leslie, Kathleen Myles, Sophia Adams, Tracey L. Schiller, Catharine Shelley, Jacob Nelson, Sioban Syst Rev Protocol BACKGROUND: Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for health profession regulators have included providing practice guidance for virtual care, changing entry-to-practice requirements to include digital competencies, facilitating interjurisdictional virtual care through licensure and liability insurance requirements, and adapting disciplinary procedures. This scoping review will examine the literature on how the public interest is protected when regulating health professionals providing virtual care. METHODS: This review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology. Academic and grey literature will be retrieved from health sciences, social sciences, and legal databases using a comprehensive search strategy underpinned by Population-Concept-Context (PCC) inclusion criteria. Articles published in English since January 2015 will be considered for inclusion. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts and full-text sources against specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Discrepancies will be resolved through discussion or by a third reviewer. One research team member will extract relevant data from the selected documents and a second will validate the extractions. DISCUSSION: Results will be presented in a descriptive synthesis that highlights implications for regulatory policy and professional practice, as well as study limitations and knowledge gaps that warrant further research. Given the rapid expansion of virtual care provision by regulated health professionals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mapping the literature on how the public interest is protected in this rapidly evolving digital health sector may help inform future regulatory reform and innovation. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: This protocol is registered with the Open Science Framework (10.17605/OSF.IO/BD2ZX). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13643-023-02198-1. BioMed Central 2023-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9986861/ /pubmed/36879324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02198-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Protocol Leslie, Kathleen Myles, Sophia Adams, Tracey L. Schiller, Catharine Shelley, Jacob Nelson, Sioban Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title | Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title_full | Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title_fullStr | Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title_full_unstemmed | Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title_short | Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
title_sort | protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol |
topic | Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36879324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02198-1 |
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