Use of Ancillary Personnel in Children's Out-Patient Departments

Abstract

The increasing demand and the increasing ability to pay for medical care in the United States is straining available medical facilities in every field.^{1, 2} Concomitantly, a medical man power shortage has already developed and is clearly going to become worse—all this at a time when the ideal of promoting good health has expanded to the point where new ways are needed for providing more services to a greater number of children.