The contribution of non-physician clinicians to the provision of surgery in rural Zambia-a randomised controlled trial

• Glavni autori: Jakub Gajewski (Autor), Mweene Cheelo (Autor), Leon Bijlmakers (Autor), John Kachimba (Autor), Chiara Pittalis (Autor), Ruairi Brugha (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background The global shortage of surgeons disproportionately impacts low- and middle-income countries. To mitigate this, Zambia introduced a 'task-shifting' solution and started to train non-physician clinicians (NPCs) called medical licentiates (ML) to perform surgery. The aim o...