OBJECTIVE To determine the willingness of Canadians to accept treatment from physician assistants (PAs). DESIGN Respondents were asked to be surrogate patients or parents under 1 of 3 conditions selected at random. Two scenarios involved injury to themselves, with the third involving injury to their children. The wait time for a physician was assumed to be 4 hours, whereas to explore the sens...

BACKGROUND Salary discrepancies between male and female physicians are well documented; however, gender-based salary differences among clinically practicing physician assistants (PAs) have not been studied since 1992 (Willis, 1992). Therefore, the objectives of the current study are to evaluate the presence of salary discrepancies between clinically practicing male and female PAs and to analyze...

We evaluated the feasibility of utilizing physician assistants as providers of primary care in a medical ICU. After a three-month period of rigorous training, two PAs were assigned to the ICU. Their performance as well as the operation of the ICU over a two-year period was evaluated and compared to two preceding years when it was operated by house officers. There were no changes in occupancy, m...

(1) Practices that are physician-owned and practices that use Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have lower nonemergent emergency department (ED) rates and lower emergent-primary care treatable ED rates. (2) Medical practices with more nurse practitioners or physician assistants per physician have higher emergent-primary care treatable ED and higher ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) rates, but thei...

Since 2003 the radiologist assistant (RA) was introduced in response to the severe shortage of radiologists and the increased demand for medical imaging services. Other non-physician clinicians, such as PAs, currently play an important role in the medical imaging environment. The article discusses the reasons physician assistants have found favor with interventional radiologists, and advocates ...

responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (npcs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to npcs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. this development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. in ...

The number of "physician extenders" (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) caring for patients with chronic hepatitis C is rising rapidly. Their growing role in the management of these patients promises greater efficiency in the delivery of care and more provider interaction with patients. This may yield benefits in terms of patient education and support, management of medication side e...