Becker's Healthcare October 23, 2024
A study by New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University and Fair Haven Community Health Care is challenging the assumption that more physicians in clinics lead to better performance on health metrics.
The study, published Oct. 22 in JAMA Open Network, analyzed the staffing models of 791 health centers serving 16 million patients. Researchers looked at how well each staffing model performed against 14 measures that health centers are regularly evaluated on.
The staffing models fell into five categories: balanced proportion of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants; more NPs than physicians; more physicians than NPs; roughly equal proportions of physicians and NPs; and large health centers with workforces two to five times larger than other centers.
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