Advanced Practice Role: Physician Assistant (PA)
Replacing Residents with Midlevel Practitioners: A New York City-Area Analysis
Reducing the number of residency positions in U.S. teaching hospitals poses special problems for New York City-area hospitals, which rely heavily on residents to deliver patient care services. This study analyzes the costs of replacing residents with midlevel practitioners under proposals considered in 1994 by Congress to limit the number of first-year training positions and […]
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A Guide to Utilizing Physician Assistants. These Valuable Assets to your Practice must be Closely Supervised
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Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington
Purpose: Little is known about whether different types of physician and nonphysician primary care clinicians vary in their propensity to care for underserved populations. The objective of this study was to compare the geographic distribution and patient populations of physician and nonphysician primary care clinicians. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional analysis of 1998 administrative and survey […]
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The Economic Benefit for Family/General Medicine Practices Employing Physician Assistants
Objective: To measure the economic benefit of a family/general medicine physician assistant (PA) practice. Study design: Qualitative description of a model PA practice in a family/general medicine practice office setting, and comparison of the financial productivity of a PA practice with that of a non-PA (physician-only) practice. Methods: The study site was a family/general medicine […]
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Satisfaction of Physician Assistants and other Nonphysician Providers in a Managed Care Setting
Health maintenance organizations have employed physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other nonphysician providers for decades, yet there is little information on how satisfied these providers are with this form of practice. This paper examines how physician assistants evaluate their experience practicing in a large group model health maintenance organization and compares their attitudes and satisfaction […]
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Understanding the Interactions between Physician Assistants and their Supervising Physicians in the Provision of Patient Care
A great deal of discussion and debate has surrounded the issue of autonomy of practice among physician assistants (PAs) and other non-physician clinicians. This study further explores this issue by closely examining the interactions between PAs and their supervising physicians in the provision of patient care. Utilizing a national sample of 1,112 full-time practicing physician […]
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A Contemporary Analysis of Medicolegal Concerns for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
The utilization of-PAs and NPs to expand the supply of traditional physician services to the public, at reduced costs, as proposed by President Nixon in 1971, has in 1994 become a national mandate. There is an increasing demand for the “traditional” physician services, which can be efficiently and cost effectively performed by nonphysician practitioners, such […]
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