A shortage of doctors limits the provision of post-partum sterilisation services in rural areas of Thailand. To overcome this problem nurse-midwives with theatre experience were trained to perform post-partum tubal ligation by a mini-laparotomy incision under local anaesthesia. The performance of the nurse-midwives was compared with that of doctors in a controlled, randomised clinical trial. Some operative difficulty was encountered by the nurses in 4.9
作者：N, Dusitsin；S, Chalapati；S, Varakamin；B, Boonsiri；P, Ningsanon；R H, Gray
来源：Lancet (London, England) 1980 年 1卷 8169期
