In this paper we propose a method which meets the required level of scientific rigour and creates a sound basis for achieving the comprehensiveness needed in a set of quality indicators.
Here, those variables along with the additional metadata for such components as Completeness and Comprehensiveness would need to be collected.
One interviewee claimed that, although health is a multidisciplinary issue, the lack of attention to multidisciplinary perspectives results in a lack of comprehensiveness in identifying needs and needs assessment.
However, a fine balance must be struck between the laborious nature of study identification and the need for comprehensiveness on the one hand, with the need to complete a scoping study in a timely fashion, on the other.
It must answer the needs of comprehensiveness and adequacy, and implies solutions that can be successfully implemented and maintained into the future.
The main concept argues development of the primary health care services reorienting them from disease centered episodic activities to patient needs, continuity, comprehensiveness, health promotion and disease prevention.
When researchers in HSR have offered justifications for using a mixed methods approach, these have usually been related to the need for comprehensiveness.
To balance the need for comprehensiveness with pragmatic cost and time limitations, we developed inclusion and exclusion criteria based on our review purpose (outlined in Table 1).
We made decisions about the terms to use for the final search in an iterative manner, balancing the need for comprehensiveness and relevance 13 (see online supplementary appendix 1 for search terms).
Primary care's four cardinal functions give it this central position: first contact (going to primary care first for each new need or problem), longitudinality (person-focused care over time), comprehensiveness (addressing all health-related needs in the population), and coordination (integrating care when patients have been seen elsewhere) [ 3- 5].
