The consistency of PA-driven care was utilized to develop a protocol for assessing risk of VTE for surgical patients, which led to significant improvement in compliance with published guidelines.

This study suggests that trauma centers are increasingly hiring and making effective use of PAs and NPs—and that jobs for PAs will grow in this area.

This study's findings suggest that rural PAs are somewhat better than urban PAs at identifying and treating skin diseases, in part because they do more of it.

Advanced practice clinicians can treat trauma patients, safely filling the void left by decreased availability of surgical residents.

What do PAs do, how skilled are they in performing these activities, and how important are these activities? For many professions, a practice analysis provides the link between examination content and real-world performance.

The Utah Medical Education Council (UMEC) was created in 1997 by legislative statute and was charged with assuring that the state maintain an adequate clinical workforce. In order to fulfill this charge, the UMEC conducts surveys of select clinician professions in order to assess the adequacy of the state's clinician workforce.

Compared to urban visits, rural visits are relatively more likely to be made to PAs than to physicians. Thus, PAs still tend to fill the rural gap where physician shortages are more prevalent.

Elderly persons comprise only 13% of the United States population, yet they account for one third of all prescription drugs used. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that in a 2003 survey of 17,685 Medicare-eligible older persons, respondents with three or more chronic conditions (73%) take five or more medications regularly.

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