The Financial Cost of Interprofessional Ambulatory Training: What's the Bottom Line?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Team-based care is recommended as a building block of high-performing primary care but has not been widely adapted in training sites. Cost may be one barrier to a team-based approach.

Objective

We quantified incremental annual faculty and staff costs as well as potential cost savings associated with an interprofessional (IP) ambulatory training program compared to a traditional residency clinic at the same site.

Methods

Cost calculations for the 2017-2018 academic year were made using US Department of Labor median salaries by profession and divided by the number of residents trained per year. Cost implications of lower no-show rates were calculated by multiplying the difference in no-show rate by the number of scheduled appointments, and then by the weighte

SUBMITTER: Block L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901628 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature