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The contribution of non-physician clinicians to the provision of surgery in rural Zambia—a randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: The global shortage of surgeons disproportionately impacts low- and middle-income countries. To mitigate this, Zambia introduced a ‘task-shifting’ solution and started to train non-physician clinicians (NPCs) called medical licentiates (ML) to perform surgery. The aim of this randomised...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0398-9 |