Task shifting from doctors to non-doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy
Date
2014
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Cochrane
Abstract
Background:
The high levels of healthcare worker shortage is recognised as a severe impediment to increasing patients’ access to antiretroviral therapy.
This is particularly of concern where the burden of disease is greatest and the access to trained doctors is limited.This review aims to
better inform HIV care programmes that are currently underway, and those planned, by assessing if task-shifting care from doctors to
non-doctors provides both high quality and safe care for all patients requiring antiretroviral treatment.
Objectives:
To evaluate the quality of initiation and maintenance of HIV/AIDS care in models that task shift care from doctors to non-doctors.
Description
CITATION: Kredo, T. et al. 2014. Task shifting from doctors to non-doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7:CD007331, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007331.pub3.
The original publication is available at https://www.cochranelibrary.com
The original publication is available at https://www.cochranelibrary.com
Keywords
Antiretroviral agents, HIV infections
Citation
Kredo, T. et al. 2014. Task shifting from doctors to non-doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7:CD007331, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007331.pub3.