Supervision as a tool for building surgical capacity of district hospitals: the case of Zambia

• Main Authors: Jakub Gajewski (Author), Nasser Monzer (Author), Chiara Pittalis (Author), Leon Bijlmakers (Author), Mweene Cheelo (Author), John Kachimba (Author), Ruairi Brugha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have adopted task shifting of surgical responsibilities to non-physician clinicians (NPCs) as a solution to address workforce shortages. There is resistance to delegating surgical procedures to NPCs due to concerns about their surgical skill...