Mid-level health workers as effective as physicians
Sunday, November 3, 2013 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
Countries facing severe shortages and poor distribution of health workers could benefit from training and deploying more mid-level health workers, such as midwives, nurses, medical assistants and surgical clinicians.In countries where such health workers have been deployed, the clinical outcomes for certain services were just as good and -- in some cases -- even better than when physicians performed them, the study shows.