The result was keep. Closing as there is a clear consensus to keep, given the submissions are unianimous. No counter arguments to the keep rationale provided, other than by the nominator. There is no active discussion ongoing, with no reasonable prospect of the consensus changing. (non-admin closure) — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:27, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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The page only uses two sources to define mid-level practitioner, both of which are outdated. The term is no longer notable nor is it a term that requires its own page. All professions listed on this page have their own individual pages.
1. WHO Definition
The definition used for this page relies on a publication from the WHO from 2010. This WHO publication relied on studies published in 2001, listed as reference 2, that used the term mid-level which is a term no longer generally used in academic journals or by government bodies. I utilized pubmed to search for all articles published in the last ten years. For the term "mid-level practitioner" there were 105 results and for the term "mid-level provider" there were 506 results. In contrast for the term "advanced practice provider" there were 34,169 results.
In searching the WHO website the term mid-level practitioner (MLP) was replaced by the term mid-level health worker (MLHW). Please review the most recent publications from the WHO.
2021 "This most recent WHO review defines a MLHW as follows: “A mid-level health worker is not a medical doctor, but provides clinical care (may diagnose, manage and treat illness, disease, and impairments) or engages in preventive care and health promotion.” Mid-level health workers are also those whose training has been shorter than doctors (2 to 4 years) but who perform some of the same tasks as doctors. ii,iii"
"iii In this brief, we consider graduate nurses/Registered nurses as being outside the purview of the category of MLHWs, unless where trained nurses themselves undergo to become clinicians performing functions similar to doctors (for e.g. nurses who take up the bridge course to become CHOs at Health and Wellness Centres). Nurse practitioners who undergo more prolonged training are also excluded from this definition."
2. Categorizing by Country
This article does not list any reference that uses the term mid-level practitioner in the countries of the United Kingdom or Canada. With India and South Africa using the term mid-level to define allied health professional which do not include NPs or PAs. Please refer to the most updates CMS guide for terminology within the United States.
3. Drug Enforcement Administration
The article also lists the US DEA and controlled substance act as being the basis for categorizing NPs and PAs as mid-level practitioners within the United States. This however is the only organization that uses the term and this is presumably only because this section of the controlled substance act was last published in 2011. No US federal law since has used the term mid-level practitioner. 29 CFR § 825.125, and 45 CFR § 160.103 both include nurse practitioner in the definition of a health care provider and have no definition for mid-level practitioner. Official communication from the DEA to prescribers refers to all professions simply as registered practitioners. Also please take note that the DEAs Q&A uses the same updated language. Lastly there is already a Wikipedia page for DEA Number and DEA numbers are simply a registration between a provider and the DEA to issue controlled substances. A provider who writes prescriptions but not for controlled substances does not need a DEA number.
Conclusion
The term mid-level is no longer generally used to describe advanced practice providers in any country, nor is it a term of notability requiring its own wikipedia page. This term was used in the past simply to group all healthcare providers other then physicians into a single category. The terms advanced practice provider or non-physician practitioners are simply defined by a dictionary and do not require a wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hue16459 ( talk • contribs) 21:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Please note that this is the user that has so far failed to participate in the mediation request or the discussion on the talk page.This is false, and can be easily checked at the talk page in question. - MrOllie ( talk) 01:43, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
You did not comment on the approximately 25 posts I made- No one is obligated to respond to every comment you make, particularly when you are WP:BLUDGEONING the talk page 25 times in four days, often by posting walls of text. At any rate, I am done engaging in such back and forth on this AFD. It is off topic here. MrOllie ( talk) 02:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
The result was keep. Closing as there is a clear consensus to keep, given the submissions are unianimous. No counter arguments to the keep rationale provided, other than by the nominator. There is no active discussion ongoing, with no reasonable prospect of the consensus changing. (non-admin closure) — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:27, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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The page only uses two sources to define mid-level practitioner, both of which are outdated. The term is no longer notable nor is it a term that requires its own page. All professions listed on this page have their own individual pages.
1. WHO Definition
The definition used for this page relies on a publication from the WHO from 2010. This WHO publication relied on studies published in 2001, listed as reference 2, that used the term mid-level which is a term no longer generally used in academic journals or by government bodies. I utilized pubmed to search for all articles published in the last ten years. For the term "mid-level practitioner" there were 105 results and for the term "mid-level provider" there were 506 results. In contrast for the term "advanced practice provider" there were 34,169 results.
In searching the WHO website the term mid-level practitioner (MLP) was replaced by the term mid-level health worker (MLHW). Please review the most recent publications from the WHO.
2021 "This most recent WHO review defines a MLHW as follows: “A mid-level health worker is not a medical doctor, but provides clinical care (may diagnose, manage and treat illness, disease, and impairments) or engages in preventive care and health promotion.” Mid-level health workers are also those whose training has been shorter than doctors (2 to 4 years) but who perform some of the same tasks as doctors. ii,iii"
"iii In this brief, we consider graduate nurses/Registered nurses as being outside the purview of the category of MLHWs, unless where trained nurses themselves undergo to become clinicians performing functions similar to doctors (for e.g. nurses who take up the bridge course to become CHOs at Health and Wellness Centres). Nurse practitioners who undergo more prolonged training are also excluded from this definition."
2. Categorizing by Country
This article does not list any reference that uses the term mid-level practitioner in the countries of the United Kingdom or Canada. With India and South Africa using the term mid-level to define allied health professional which do not include NPs or PAs. Please refer to the most updates CMS guide for terminology within the United States.
3. Drug Enforcement Administration
The article also lists the US DEA and controlled substance act as being the basis for categorizing NPs and PAs as mid-level practitioners within the United States. This however is the only organization that uses the term and this is presumably only because this section of the controlled substance act was last published in 2011. No US federal law since has used the term mid-level practitioner. 29 CFR § 825.125, and 45 CFR § 160.103 both include nurse practitioner in the definition of a health care provider and have no definition for mid-level practitioner. Official communication from the DEA to prescribers refers to all professions simply as registered practitioners. Also please take note that the DEAs Q&A uses the same updated language. Lastly there is already a Wikipedia page for DEA Number and DEA numbers are simply a registration between a provider and the DEA to issue controlled substances. A provider who writes prescriptions but not for controlled substances does not need a DEA number.
Conclusion
The term mid-level is no longer generally used to describe advanced practice providers in any country, nor is it a term of notability requiring its own wikipedia page. This term was used in the past simply to group all healthcare providers other then physicians into a single category. The terms advanced practice provider or non-physician practitioners are simply defined by a dictionary and do not require a wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hue16459 ( talk • contribs) 21:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Please note that this is the user that has so far failed to participate in the mediation request or the discussion on the talk page.This is false, and can be easily checked at the talk page in question. - MrOllie ( talk) 01:43, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
You did not comment on the approximately 25 posts I made- No one is obligated to respond to every comment you make, particularly when you are WP:BLUDGEONING the talk page 25 times in four days, often by posting walls of text. At any rate, I am done engaging in such back and forth on this AFD. It is off topic here. MrOllie ( talk) 02:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)