Collaborative practice trends in US physician office visits: an analysis of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), 2007-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Practice arrangements in physician offices were characterised by examining the share of visits that involved physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs). The hypothesis was that collaborative practice (ie, care delivered by a dyad of physician-PA and/or physician-NP) was increasing.

Design

Temporal ecological study.

Setting

Non-federal physician offices.

Participants

Patient visits to a physician, PA or NP, spanning years 2007-2016.

Methods

A stratified random sample of visits to office-based physicians was pooled through the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey public use linkage file. Among 317 674 visits to physicians, PAs or NPs, solo and collaborative practices were described and compared over two timespans of 2007-2011 and

SUBMITTER: Najmabadi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature