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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...
Autores principales: | van Heemskerken, Phylisha, Broekhuizen, Henk, Gajewski, Jakub, Brugha, Ruairí, Bijlmakers, Leon |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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