Physician assistants and nurse practitioners in hospital outpatient departments, 1993-1994.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  McCaig, Linda F. ; Hooker, Roderick S. ; Sekscenski, Edwad S. ; Woodwell, Dwoodall A.
• Description:
  To describe the characteristics of visits to physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) in hospital outpatient departments in the United States.|Data from the 1993 and 1994 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys were used to compare hospital outpatient department visits in which the patient was seen by a PA or NP, or both, with outpatient visits to all practitioners.|An average of 64 million annual outpatient visits were made in 1993-1994, and patients were seen by PAs, NPs, or both, at 8% of these visits. PA-NP visits were more likely than total visits to occur in the Midwest, in non-urban areas, and in obstetric-gynecology clinics, and a higher proportion involved patients younger than age 25. Smaller differences were found between PA-NP visits and total outpatient visits in "reason for visit," "principal diagnosis," and "medication prescribed."|Beyond the care they provide in physicians' offices and other non-hospital settings, PAs and NPs make an important contribution to ambulatory health care delivery in hospital outpatient departments.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Child Diagnosis-Related Groups Drug Prescriptions Female Health Care Surveys Humans Male Middle Aged Nurse Practitioners Outpatient Clinics, Hospital Physician Assistants Research Article Workforce

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 113(1):75-82
• Pubmed ID:
  9885533
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  113
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f93a113390f25b0840f5d33ed524c85ee6654a83c12cfc818c2559182f33b0ac
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/64601/cdc_64601_DS1.pdf
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