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

• Main Authors: Jakub Gajewski (Author), Mweene Cheelo (Author), Leon Bijlmakers (Author), John Kachimba (Author), Chiara Pittalis (Author), Ruairi Brugha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...