Reconfiguring health workforce: a case-based comparative study explaining the increasingly diverse professional roles in Europe

• Main Authors: Antoinette de Bont (Author), Job van Exel (Author), Silvia Coretti (Author), Zeynep Güldem Ökem (Author), Maarten Janssen (Author), Kristin Lofthus Hope (Author), Tomasz Ludwicki (Author), Britta Zander (Author), Marie Zvonickova (Author), Christine Bond (Author), Iris Wallenburg (Author), On behalf of the MUNROS Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Over the past decade the healthcare workforce has diversified in several directions with formalised roles for health care assistants, specialised roles for nurses and technicians, advanced roles for physician associates and nurse practitioners and new professions for new services...