The SHARP way to plan health care services: A description of the system and some illustrative applications in nursing human resource planning

SHARP provides an analytical framework that for the first time brings together all major elements of the health care system and helps to organize our thoughts about the system as a system. (The acronym stands for System for Health Area Resource Planning; SHARP has been developed for Ontario, the largest of the Canadian provinces.) A framework for discussion is especially important during the current period of “health reform”, spurred largely by …