Global surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic task shifting: A systematic literature review

Five billion people lack access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care; this is in part driven by severe shortages in the global surgical workforce. Task shifting is commonly implemented to expand the surgical workforce. A more complete understanding of the global distribution and use of surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic task shifting is lacking in the literature. We aimed to document the use of task shifting worldwide with a systematic review of the literature.

Source: Surgery - July 4, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Frederik Federspiel, Swagoto Mukhopadhyay, Penelope J. Milsom, John W. Scott, Johanna N. Riesel, John G. Meara Source Type: research