Fierce Healthcare September 4, 2018
The growth in the number of nurse practitioners and physician assistants is outpacing that of physicians.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have made up a greater proportion of the healthcare workforce over the last 15 years, a trend that isn’t about to change, according to new projections.
The number of NPs and PAs has outpaced that of physicians, so that roughly two-thirds (67.3%) of practitioners added to the workforce between 2016 and 2030 will be advanced practice clinicians, according to projections in NEJM Catalyst by authors David I. Auerbach, Ph.D., Douglas O. Staiger, Ph.D., and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N.
The combined number of NPs and PAs per 100 physicians—a...
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