Background General practitioner (GP) shortages and increasing demand for care led to the
introduction of nurse practitioners (NPs) to primary care. Many concepts for task sharing …

Background Registered nurses have increasingly taken on new, integrated roles across a
variety of health care settings, thus leading to a lack of clarity among titles used to identify …

In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design,
management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health …

Background The integrated healthcare of patients with support needs in primary healthcare
in Austria has insufficient structural and procedural features in terms of the quality and …

Aim To assess the rates of specialist visits and visits to hospital emergency departments
(ED) among patients in Austria with and without concurrent general practitioner (GP) …

Background: The ongoing refugee crisis has revealed the need for enhancing primary
health care (PHC) professionals' skills and training. Objectives: The aim was to strengthen …

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify key policy objectives by investigating the
perception of important stakeholders and affected professionals concerning relevance and …

Primary health care (PHC) is currently being improved in all developed industries. The aim
is to make healthcare more patient-centered and close to the patient's place of residence. In …

Background Inclusion of patients in healthcare service and system planning is an
increasingly important tool to improve healthcare systems worldwide. In 2012, a focused …

„Die Pandemie [testet; Abänderung durch Autorin] unsere Gesundheitssysteme bis an ihre
Grenzen und darüber hinaus. Sie hat seit langem bestehende Schwachstellen in den …