In the United Kingdom, GPs with a special interest have also been employed, who carry out substituting tasks for patients of certain categories [ 2].
Task shifting includes various scenarios, such as substituting tasks among professionals, delegating tasks to professionals with less training, including creating a new cadre, delegating tasks to non-professionals, or a combination of these [ 2].
Even though substituting tasks within the hospital setting is taking place, a full cost calculation of this kind of substitution in the ophthalmic care has not been performed yet.
However, other team members may not substitute those tasks of the GPs, but rather take on extra tasks such as physiotherapy.
However, one oncologist mentioned some concern about this new task: "It is a barrier that you have to log in to another system [AmbuFlex] if it does not substitute other tasks".
But some curricula reviewed show that most basic-level substitutes perform tasks limited to consultation, writing prescriptions and basic treatment and undertaking relatively minor procedures such as draining skin abscesses, suturing non-penetrating wounds and using plaster of Paris for fractures [ 11, 12].
The association with expected time availability is in line with findings in literature reporting providers' concerns that web-based communication would add to their work-load rather than substitute for other tasks [ 17, 18].
Mr. Schlegel fell ill from an undisclosed problem as the Atlantis docked, leading to a one-day delay in the spacewalk and causing NASA to draft Mr. Love as a substitute for the task.
Thus, the substantial declines in clerical and administrative occupations are almost certainly a direct consequence of the falling price of machine substitutes for these tasks".
The introduction of substitutes with extremely low volatility has also reduced the potential for inhalation of the substitute solvent in these tasks.
