Medical Xpress October 22, 2024
Physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician associates (PAs) enhance different aspects of patient care quality, a new Yale and Fair Haven Community Health Care study finds.
Researchers evaluated how each of these clinicians contributed to the quality of care in federally qualified health centers in the United States. The findings, they say, challenge assumptions that it is always better to staff with more physicians and highlight how strategic hiring could allow health centers to tackle specific health challenges in their communities.
The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.
The study emerged from a practical question, says senior author Benjamin Oldfield, an assistant clinical professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine and the vice president of clinical affairs at...
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