A novel inpatient PA staffing model for a community hospital

Objective: We sought to create a novel physician assistant (PA) and physician hospital medicine co-management strategy, employing a 3:1 PA:physician structure, under which the physician oversees all PA patients, but without a separate independent panel. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort pre-post design, comparing metrics for a traditional physician-only hospitalist model with a PA-physician team model. Outcomes included length of stay (LOS), readmissions, discharge destination, patient satisfaction, and in-hospital mortality. Results: LOS for patients under the PA-physician model (74 hours) was lower than for the physician-only model (83 hours; P
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants - Category: Primary Care Tags: Original Research Source Type: research