Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S.
Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.
For a study published in Health Policy, researcher Claudia Maier, a 2014–15 Harkness/Braun Fellow, examined how “task-shifting” is managed in different countries and assessed the implications of various governance models on patient safety and clarity of clinician roles. . .