Sports Medicine Staffing Across National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, II, and III Schools: Evidence for the Medical Model.

CONCLUSIONS: In many health care settings, clinician:patient ratios are associated with patient health outcomes. We found systematic variations in clinician:patient ratios across National Collegiate Athletic Association divisions of competition and across medical versus athletics organizational models, raising the possibility that athletes' health outcomes vary across these contexts. Future researchers should evaluate the relationships between clinician-patient ratios and athletes' access to care, care provision, health care costs, health outcomes, and clinician job satisfaction. PMID: 32364760 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Athletic Training - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Athl Train Source Type: research