The involvement of physician assistants in inpatient care in hospitals in the Netherlands: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the cost-effectiveness of substitution of inpatient care from medical doctors (MDs) to physician assistants (PAs).

Design

Cost-effectiveness analysis embedded within a multicentre, matched-controlled study. The traditional model in which only MDs are employed for inpatient care (MD model) was compared with a mixed model in which, besides MDs, PAs are also employed (PA/MD model).

Setting

34 hospital wards across the Netherlands.

Participants

2292 patients were followed from admission until 1 month after discharge. Patients receiving daycare, terminally ill patients and children were excluded.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

All direct healthcare costs from day of admission until 1 month after discharge. Health outcome conce

SUBMITTER: Timmermans MJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5541617 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature