Roderick S Hooker

..Understanding the various components of the health workforce is paramount in making estimates of future care needs. This chapter examines PAs and NPs in rheumatology settings to understand what they do and how they are utilized...

..Projected demand for PA services in the VHA is expected to grow to 2,550 by 2018. Strategies are under way to improve the PA workforce in the VA...

..These findings suggest that an array of new incentives under health reform could draw and retain more physician assistants into primary care medicine...

..In view of an increasing emergency medical demand and a continuing shortage of physician personnel, policies are needed for workforce planning to meet the demand...

..The interprofessional skill mix provided by PAs and NPs may enhance medical care in comparison with that provided by a doctor alone...

..However, there have been no published studies from a national standpoint comparing urban and rural settings...

..Because civilian job opportunities for PAs are plentiful, the federal system is seeking strategies for recruitment and retention. A centralized plan may be one useful recommendation...

..Furthermore, studies of drugs for autoimmune diseases that do include elderly populations have tended to include a preponderance of female patients...

..Concurrently, the utilization of rheumatology physician assistants (PAs) is growing, although little is known about this role...

..Physician assistants (PAs), one alternative, are employed in emergency departments (EDs), but little is known about the impact of their role...

..This study provides the first description of the training and activity of Canadian physician assistants...

..Few differences emerged in the use of resources and the rate of return visits for a diagnosis between physicians and PAs. In this setting PAs appear to be cost-effective from an employment standpoint...

..These observations have implications for the future in the types of patients they see and the degree of health care services they provide...

..03). In conclusion, in a population of male US veterans aged >50 years, (1) patients with RA were at high risk of MACEs, and (2) RA DAS was a significant predictor of MACEs independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors...

..The physician assistant concept might provide Australia with a novel strategy for addressing its medical workforce shortage, particularly in rural and remote settings...

..Improvement of rural health care access has been a guiding principle of federal and state policy regarding physician assistants (PAs)...

..The intent is to study the characteristics of providers and patients, and the type of prescriptions written by NPs and PAs in primary care and to compare these activities to physicians...

..To determine how satisfied older American consumers are with physician assistant (PA) and nurse practitioner (NP) care...

..In spite of these findings, almost one third of states continue to have limited or restricted statutes for PA practice, mostly in the area of reimbursement...

..To understand more about the nurse practitioner (NP) profession, a study was undertaken of the dissertation literature...

..They also were significantly less satisfied than the physicians with their incomes and fringe benefits. Our findings suggest that more attention should be given to practice conditions and compensation of PAs and NPs in managed care...