Physician Assistants Contribution to Emergency Department Productivity
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Physician Assistants Contribution to Emergency Department Productivity
INTRODUCTION The objective of this report is to determine physician assistant (PA) productivity in an academic emergency department (ED) and to determine whether shift length or department census impact productivity. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted at a tertiary ED during June and July of 2007. Productivity was calculated as the mean number of patients seen each hour. Analy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1936-900X,1936-9018
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2011.6.6746