Primary health care in a paediatric setting — the background
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Staff management in Paediatric Primary care setting
In the last 6-7 years there has been a progressive increase in the use of nurses or secretaries in Paediatric Primary care setting. Regional incentives (few) and the rising (remarkable) of the workload and patients’ requests, convinced about the 40% of the italian Family Paediatricians (FP) to hire new staff. In the 70% of cases the employers were organized in working group in one private pract...
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عنوان ژورنال: Curationis
سال: 1979
ISSN: 2223-6279,0379-8577
DOI: 10.4102/curationis.v2i2.441