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Sustainability of Task-Shifting for Antiretroviral Treatment [PDF]

open access: yesLancet, The, 2012
Fairall and colleagues[1] provide additional evidence for task-shifting in HIV care. But, like previous reports[2,3], they describe sub-optimal retention and virologic suppression rates and a lack of evidence of long-term effectiveness and sustainability of task-shifting.
Quarraisha Karim   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Task-Shifting for Caesarean Section

2023
Abstract In areas with physician shortages, nonphysician clinicians are often trained and employed to help cover this gap. Training nonphysician clinicians to perform tasks traditionally undertaken by physicians is termed “task-shifting.” This study evaluates health outcomes of patients who underwent cesarean sections by clinical ...
Sitalire Kapira, Maria Openshaw
openaire   +1 more source

Task Shifting in Health Care in Resource-Poor Countries

Lancet, The, 2008
There is good evidence and compelling logic to support the principle of task shifting—ie, the allocation of tasks in health-system delivery to the least costly health worker capable of doing that task reliably. Luis Huicho and colleagues,1 in today’s Lancet, provide the most comprehensive study of this topic to date.
Barbara McPake
exaly   +4 more sources

Primary care practice assistants’ attitudes towards tasking shifting and their perceptions of the challenges of task shifting – Development of a questionnaire

Health & Social Care in the Community, 2019
Shifting tasks from medical staff to non-medical staff is a common practice for promoting the efficient use of healthcare resources. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot test a questionnaire that evaluates practice assistants' attitudes towards task shifting and their perceptions of the challenges of task shifting (acronym: ACD questionnaire)
Andrea Feindel   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Ethics Behind Task-Shifting

Exposure
Task-shifting, the redistribution of clinical responsibilities to less specialized health workers, has been widely adopted in low- and middle-income countries as a response to healthcare workforce shortages, particularly in HIV service delivery contexts.
openaire   +1 more source

Task shifting in HIV clinics, Western Kenya.

East African medical journal, 2012
United states Agency for International development-Academic Model for Providing Accesses to Healthcare (USAID-AMPATH) cares for over 80,000 HIV-infected patients. Express care (EC) model addresses challenges of: clinically stable patient's adherent to combined-antiretroviral-therapy with minimal need for clinician intervention and high risk patients ...
Kosgei, RJ   +10 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Task Shifting

2021
Daniel C. Kinyanjui, David O. Ayuku
openaire   +1 more source

An Exploratory Descriptive Study on Task Shifting in East Africa

Advances in Nursing Science, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of nurse leaders in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda who have taken on expanded roles through task shifting. Understanding how nurses perceive task shifting directs education and training to more effectively meet population health needs in their communities.
openaire   +2 more sources

Task Shifting in Dermatology—A Call to Action

JAMA Dermatology, 2018
Anuradha, Bishnoi   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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