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Doctor displacement: a political agenda or a health care imperative?
Author(s) -
Van Der Weyden Martin B
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02209.x
Subject(s) - citation , politics , library science , sociology , media studies , political science , law , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1/15 December 2008 189 11/12 608-609 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2008 www.mja.com.au Editorial In the UK, the number of NPs grew by 27% betwee 2007 to over 47 000; NPs work in such diverse area practice, emergency medicine, anaesthetics, surgery scopy. In the US, there were about 69500 PAs in 2007 NPs in 2004. Different strands of the US educatio delivering courses to train these practitioners. There ar based PA programs, and nursing schools now provide d Bring on the debate, but let’s base it on evidence