Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Scope of Practice: Who Will Decide?

Practice variation and practice guidelines: Attitudes of generalist and specialist physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants

OBJECTIVE To understand clinicians' beliefs about practice variation and how variation might be reduced. METHODS We surveyed board-certified physicians (N = 178), nurse practitioners (N = 60), and physician assistants (N = 12) at an academic medical center and two community clinics, representing family medicine, general internal medicine, and cardiology, from February-April 2016. The Internet...

Patient Satisfaction: Comparing Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Physicians

bottom right WENDY RAY is the assistant to the Assistant Regional Medical Director for Quality Management and Systems for NWP in Portland, Oregon. Patient acceptance and satisfaction with care has only recently received attention in the medical literature. Interest has grown concomitantly with increasing competition among health plans: Because they need to attract and retain members, health pla...

SCOPE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Services Provided by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Comparison of the quality of patient referrals from physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.

OBJECTIVE To compare the quality of referrals of patients with complex medical problems from nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and physicians to general internists. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective comparison study involving regional referrals to an academic medical center from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2010. All 160 patients referred by NPs a...

Veterans' perceptions of care by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians: a comparison from satisfaction surveys.

PURPOSE To examine the differences in patient satisfaction with care provided by nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and physicians in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system. DATA SOURCE Secondary data was obtained from the VHA's Survey of Healthcare Experience of Patients (SHEP), a monthly survey designed to measure patient satisfaction. Descriptive statistics wer...