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  • Private practice in rural areas: An untapped opportunity for dietitians

    Author(s)
    Brown, Leanne J
    Mitchell, Lana J
    Williams, Lauren T
    Macdonald-Wicks, Lesley
    Capra, Sandra
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Williams, Lauren T.
    Mitchell, Lana J.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the current demography of rural dietetic private practice and to determine the drivers and barriers for further development. Design: A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach was used. Document searches and semistructured in-depth individual interviews were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Setting: Six rural case study sites of dietetic service delivery in rural northern New South Wales. Participants: Forty key informants including past and present dietitians, dietetic managers and health service managers were recruited, of these a subset of 15 ...
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    Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the current demography of rural dietetic private practice and to determine the drivers and barriers for further development. Design: A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach was used. Document searches and semistructured in-depth individual interviews were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Setting: Six rural case study sites of dietetic service delivery in rural northern New South Wales. Participants: Forty key informants including past and present dietitians, dietetic managers and health service managers were recruited, of these a subset of 15 interviews included discussion or comments about private practice in rural areas. Main outcomes measures: Themes identified from the interview transcripts, Medicare enhanced primary care consultation data and public/private dietetic staffing levels from document searches. Results: Private practice staffing ranged between 0% and 26% of the dietetic workforce across the six sites in 2006. Themes relating to the drivers and barriers for private practice were identified: financial factors, job satisfaction, opportunities for private practice and establishing private practice. Conclusions: There is an opportunity for growth of private practice to meet the gap in public dietetic services in rural areas.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume
    19
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1584.2011.01211.x
    Subject
    Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/57844
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