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Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa—a scoping review

BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest burden of disease amenable to surgery while having the lowest surgeon to population ratio in the world. Some 25 SSA countries use surgical task-shifting from physicians to non-physician clinicians (NPCs) as a strategy to increase access to surge...

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Autores principales: van Heemskerken, Phylisha, Broekhuizen, Henk, Gajewski, Jakub, Brugha, Ruairí, Bijlmakers, Leon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7368796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32680526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-020-00490-y