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Task Shifting by Nurse Practitioner in Neuroendovascular Therapy. [PDF]

J Neuroendovasc Ther
As a solution to the shortage of and overwork among physicians, task shifting and task sharing have been proposed for health-care professionals. This study aimed to investigate the role of nurse practitioners (NPs) in neurovascular interventions and evaluate the validity of task shifting in our institute.Medical records from 684 neurovascular ...
Katayama T, Komatsu F, Okubo M, Kihara K, Sasaki K, Tanaka R, Hasebe A, Tanabe J, Haraguchi K, Yamada Y, Nakahara I, Kato Y.   +11 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

How can task shifting put patient safety at risk? A qualitative study of experiences among general practitioners in Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2020
Objective: To describe experiences among general practitioners (GPs) in Norway regarding horizontal task shifting experiences associated with adverse events that potentially put patient safety at risk.
Kirsti Malterud, Aase Aamland, Anette Fosse   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Task shifting can improve access, availability, efficiency, and quality of health services in under resourced settings. Task shifting can occur formally or informally within health professions, between health professions, between support staff and health
Greg Toffner, David Alain Koff, Alexander Drossos, Uranchimeg Tsegmed, Margaret Andrea Baumann   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Task shifting to improve practice efficiency: A survey among general practitioners in non-urban Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany [PDF]

European Journal of General Practice
Background Germany is challenged by an increasing shortage in general practice services, especially in non-urban areas. Task shifting from general practitioners (GPs) to other health professionals may improve practice efficiency to address this mismatch ...
Heiner Averbeck, Jasmin Raedler, Raenhha Dhami, Simon Schwill, Joachim E. Fischer   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Task-shifting or problem-shifting? How lay counselling is redefining mental healthcare [PDF]

PLOS Mental Health
Liana Chase, Parbati Shrestha, Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Sujen Man Maharjan, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba, Kamal Gautam, Dristy Gurung, Maura Cranny Ntow   +14 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Task shifting or shifting care practices? The impact of task shifting on patients’ experiences and health care arrangements in Swaziland [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
In the quest to achieve early HIV treatment goals, national HIV treatment programmes dependent on international funding have been dramatically redesigned over the last 5 years. Bottlenecks in treatment provision are conceived of as health system problems to be addressed via structural and logistical fixes (routine HIV testing, point-of-care equipment ...
Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane, Eileen Moyer
openaire   +3 more sources

Coherence Shifts in Probabilistic Inference Tasks [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
AbstractThe fast‐and‐frugal heuristics approach to probabilistic inference assumes that individuals often employ simple heuristics to integrate cue information that commonly function in a non‐reciprocal fashion. Specifically, the subjective validity of a certain cue remains stable during the application of a heuristic and is not changed by the presence
Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch, Nicola Schindler   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The reality of task shifting in medicines management - a case study from Tanzania [PDF]

, 2015
Tanzania suffers a severe shortage of pharmaceutical staff. This negatively affects the provision of pharmaceutical services and access to medicines, particularly in rural areas.
Mapunjo, Siana, Wiedenmayer, Karin A., Charles, James, Chilunda, Fiona, Kapologwe, Ntuli   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Perspectives of health workers engaging in task shifting to deliver health care in low-and-middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Global Health Action, 2023
Background Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing growing demand for healthcare services yet face a persistent shortage in access to specialist health workers (SHWs).
Karen Coales, Hannah Jennings, Saima Afaq, Aatik Arsh, Mujeeb Bhatti, Faraz Siddiqui, Najma Siddiqi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

At the dawn of delegation? Experiences and attitudes of general practitioners in Germany – a questionnaire survey

BMC Family Practice, 2017
Background In the future, ‘delegation’ as task shifting from general practitioners (GPs) to non-physicians will be important in primary care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes towards the concept of task shifting and to ...
Katja Goetz, Anna Kornitzky, Janis Mahnkopf, Jost Steinhäuser   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source