Costs productivity and the utilization of physicians extenders in air force primary medicine clinics author joan l buchanan subject this report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physician extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective created . The authors focused on one type of extender physician assistants pas who are typically air force corpsmen with one year of classroom and one year of clinical training the general conclusions were the following in typical air force primary adult medicine clinics pas can substitute for physicians one to one for 80 90 percent of the patients whose problems lie within the pas expertise . This report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physicians extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective specifically it examines the productivity of extenders in outpatient care and the costs of procuring and using extenders. Costs productivity and the utilization of physicians extenders in air force primary medicine clinics rand report joan buchanan susan hosek isbn 9780833004970 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Costs productivity and the utilization of physicians extenders in air force primary medicine clinics this report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physician extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective specifically it examines the productivity of