Collective workshops concerning specific themes such as physical therapy, communication, social supports, sleep disorders, stress management, therapies in PD could be proposed to volunteer patients and were performed by the nurse, a physiotherapist and a specialized practitioner.
In lower income countries where the fewest specialist providers are available, prescribing professionals like clinical officers (a mid-level health worker with fewer years of training than a doctor) may perform tasks similar to those of a specialized practitioner in a middle-income country with more options for training and employing specialists (24).
According to their official Web site, the ALPN has awarded more than 200 medical grants during the last decade to young doctors, medical students, and "specialized practitioners".
Palliative care can be delivered by specialized practitioners, general practitioners, allied health professionals, and informal caregivers such as volunteers and family members [ 25].
Nephrologists are highly specialized practitioners and therefore are particularly well informed on the advantages and side effects of each RTT modality.
Regardless of whether the women were triaged as a priority or not, the experience of being assessed in a busy unit by specialized practitioners was reassuring.
The development of the guidelines, which specified any treatment priorities, were carried out by separate expert groups for each medical field, including clinicians, specialized practitioners, general practitioners (GPs) and representatives from particular patient organizations, as relevant [ 14].
In the Ontario setting, most HIV care is provided by a small number of specialized practitioners who offer integrated, interprofessional HIV outpatient care, as well as a a significant amount of primary care (Jean Bacon, OHTN, personal communication, January 28 , 2013.
Other: includes physiotherapists or specialized ventilator practitioners who may also hold a nursing qualification.
Two ICU-specialized nursing practitioners (data assistants), were appointed to extract data from existing documentation systems.
The co-operating pneumology-specialized general practitioners of the Hamburg/Kiel area covered internal medicine with focus on pneumology.
