As the agenda to promote teamwork, skill mix, and task delegation continues, a clear call for more empirical data on the contribution dental hygiene-therapists make to clinical care has been made [ 11, 29].
We assumed that five clinicians, made up of midwives, doctors and others, working on a clinical research or clinical audit project together would provide team support, different skills and enough members for task delegation, i.e. critical mass.
The instructions include a compact e-learning component with role modelling and suggestions for integrating the patient decision aid in the clinical pathway and for task delegation.
"Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia" (Business Day, Dec. 6), on the high prevalence of dyslexics among the ranks of entrepreneurs, describes possible explanations for this phenomenon, including perfecting the art of task delegation and the honing of compensatory skills.
Another theme that emerged in the interviews was the challenges related to task delegation.
Previous reports from the ZODIAC study showed that structured shared care with task delegation to nurses leads to improvements in quality of diabetes care and life expectancy.
Nowadays, because of task delegation and differentiation, the number of employees in a GP practice has grown.
All materials were included in a package: the educational material, supportive materials, information on organisation, a scheme for task delegation, and the guiding patient information form.
In fact, skill-mix studies show that proper task delegation is critical to ensure proper health-care delivery.
Furthermore, we cannot exclude the presence of difference in outcomes between patients who received task delegation care during the first 3 years of the ZODIAC study and patients who did not.
The healthcare centers were classified in two classes: with high or low task delegation from general practitioners to nurses.
