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Use Of Physician Assistants And Nurse Practitioners In Primary Care, 1995–1999
Roderick S. Hooker and
Linda F. McCaig
Federal policies and state legislation encourage the use of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary care, although the nature of their work has not been fully analyzed. In this paper we analyze primary care physician office encounter data from the 1995–1999 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. About one-quarter of primary care office based physicians used PAs and/or NPs for an average of 11 percent of visits. The mean age of patients seen by physicians was greater than that for PAs or NPs. NPs provided counseling/education during a higher proportion of visits than did PAs or physicians. Overall, this study suggests that PAs and NPs are providing primary care in a way that is similar to physician care.
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