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Danielle N Brown1, Sinéad M Langan2, Esther E Freeman3
1Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.
Clinical Question:
Can task shifting be used to improve the delivery of dermatologic care in resource-poor settings worldwide?
Bottom Line:
Task shifting is a means of redistributing available resources, whereby highly trained individuals train an available workforce to provide necessary care in low-resource settings. Limited evidence exists for task shifting in dermatology; however, studies from psychiatry demonstrate its efficacy. In the field of dermatology there is a need for high-quality evidence including randomized clinical trials to validate the implementation of task shifting in low-resource settings globally.
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