Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa-a scoping review

• Main Authors: Phylisha van Heemskerken (Author), Henk Broekhuizen (Author), Jakub Gajewski (Author), Ruairí Brugha (Author), Leon Bijlmakers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest burden of disease amenable to surgery while having the lowest surgeon to population ratio in the world. Some 25 SSA countries use surgical task-shifting from physicians to non-physician clinicians (NPCs) as a strategy to increase access...