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Economics of Task-Shifting in Surgery: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aim Due to the global shortage in the surgical workforce, especially in low‐resource settings, one solution to increase surgical volume is to delegate certain roles of surgeons to other trained non‐surgeon health workers.
Oko CI +12 more
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Pluralistic task shifting for a more timely cancer diagnosis. A grounded theory study from a primary care perspective [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021 Objective To explore how cancer could be diagnosed in a more timely way. Design Grounded theory analysis of primary care physicians’ free text survey responses to: ‘How do you think the speed of diagnosis of cancer in primary care could be improved ...
Hans Thulesius +12 more
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Experiences, opportunities and challenges of implementing task shifting in underserved remote settings: the case of Kongwa district, central Tanzania [PDF]
BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2012 Background Tanzania is experiencing acute shortages of Health Workers (HWs), a situation which has forced health managers, especially in the underserved districts, to hastily cope with health workers’ shortages by adopting task shifting. This has however
Munga Michael A +4 more
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Task Shifting in Dermatology [PDF]
JAMA Dermatology, 2017 Can task shifting be used to improve the delivery of dermatologic care in resource-poor settings worldwide?Task shifting is a means of redistributing available resources, whereby highly trained individuals train an available workforce to provide necessary care in low-resource settings.
Danielle N, Brown +2 more
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Task shifting of medical office works: A preliminary questionnaire survey for generalists [PDF]
Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2023 To reduce physician burden, task shifting of clerical work from physicians to medical assistants is being promoted; however, it depends on hospitals.
Yuki Otsuka +3 more
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Policy and programmatic implications of task shifting in Uganda: a case study
BMC Health Services Research, 2012 Background Uganda has a severe health worker shortage and a high demand for health care services. This study aimed to assess the policy and programmatic implications of task shifting in Uganda. Methods This was a qualitative, descriptive study through 34
Dambisya Yoswa M, Matinhure Sheillah
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Automatic activation of task-related representations in task shifting [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2007 Stimulus displays consisting of a target and a distractor can produce task conflicts when target and distractor are associated with different tasks. The present study examined whether these stimulus-induced task conflicts are affected by priming the irrelevant task or by increasing the salience of the distractor.
Steinhauser, Marco, Hübner, Ronald
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Evaluating task shifting to the clinical technologist in Dutch healthcare: A mixed methods study
PLoS ONE, 2023 Background Expected rise in the demand for healthcare and a dropping supply of healthcare professionals, has generated an increased interest in the most effective deployment of healthcare professionals.
Maarten de Haan +5 more
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Journal of Global Health Reports, 2023 # Background Nigeria developed a National Task Shifting and Sharing Policy due to protracted inequitable distribution of health workers, especially at the primary level of care, and the low stock and production rate of skilled health workforce ...
Sunny C Okoroafor +1 more
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Surgical task shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PLoS Medicine, 2009 Kathryn Chu and colleagues discuss some of the experiences of surgical task shifting to date, and outline lessons from task shifting in the delivery of HIV/AIDS care.
Kathryn Chu +3 more
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