Can task-shifting work at scale?: Comparing clinical knowledge of non-physician clinicians to physicians in Nigeria
Abstract Background In contexts with severe physician shortages, the World Health Organization advocates task shifting to cadres with shorter training. To investigate the effects of task shifting at scale in primary health care, we assessed the clinical knowledge of non-physician clinicians versus p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-018-3133-7 |