Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Workforce
Sleep over Safety?
Dr. Atul Grover, the Chief Public Policy Officer of the AAMC, alerted me to the fact that Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association were up in arms over the current study deliberating between the 2003 and 2011 ACGME Continue Reading …
Docs Earn More with ACA, if State Participates
The Affordable Care Act is paying doctors more through Medicaid expansion. Payments to physicians for hospital stays increased by $3.38 (4.2%) per day. About half of the higher payments were due to better payer mix. This means that uninsured patients Continue Reading …
Nurse Practitioners are not Doctors, They’re Better
In an era of physician shortages and insurance expansion, the American health system is struggling to keep pace with increasing demand from patients. Although the last decade has produced some growth in the number of American medical schools, residency programs Continue Reading …
Saving Primary Care, One NP at a Time
This meta-analysis by Martinez-Gonzalez and colleagues examined the effects of task-shifting from physicians to nurse practitioners in primary care. Twenty studies included in the meta-analysis all compared nurse-led care with physician-led care in general practices, including frequency and length of Continue Reading …
Primary Care is Still the Answer
Though the has been praised as the ultimate strategy in keeping patients out of emergency departments and hospitals, so far the actual results have been mixed. A new study out of California, however, provides more positive evidence for the benefits Continue Reading …