{"title":"The impact of surgical physician assistants on the delivery of modern healthcare.","authors":"J L DeLamielleure","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article will examine the impact of the use of physician extenders, specifically physician assistants and surgical physician assistants, on various pertinent healthcare issues. These issues include cost containment strategies, physician productivity, reimbursement, liability, manpower issues, and continuity and quality of patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79476,"journal":{"name":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","volume":"2 3","pages":"136-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article will examine the impact of the use of physician extenders, specifically physician assistants and surgical physician assistants, on various pertinent healthcare issues. These issues include cost containment strategies, physician productivity, reimbursement, liability, manpower issues, and continuity and quality of patient care.