BACKGROUND Physician co-management, representing joint participation in the planning, decision-making, and delivery of care, is often cited in association with coordination of care. Yet little is known about how physicians manage tasks and how their management style impacts patient outcomes. OBJECTIVES To describe physician practice style using breast cancer as a model. We characterize correl...

Traditional communication between physicians and patients consists of verbal non-verbal communication. Non-verbal can emphasize, modify, or supplement a message that is verbally conveyed reduce the possibility misunderstanding. Web applications offer ability to communicate with outside healthcare facility. E-mail selected physician patient defined as electronic doctors in contractual relationsh...

BACKGROUND Compensation disparities between men and women have been problematic for decades, and there is considerable evidence that the gap cannot be entirely explained by nongender factors. The current study examined the compensation gap in the physician assistant (PA) profession. METHODS Compensation data from 2014 was collected by the American Academy of PAs in 2015. Practice variables, i...

I love PA Week. There is such a sense of excitement and pride as the profession acknowledges the past, celebrates the present, and looks to our future. My fi rst week in physician assistant (PA) education culminated in a Duke University PA Day celebration. I still remember these festivities 13 years later because it was the fi rst time I really thought about the history of the profession and th...

BACKGROUND The physician assistant (PA) profession is a nationally recognized medical profession in the United States of America (USA). However, relatively little is known regarding national trends of the PA workforce. METHODS We examined the 1980-2007 USA Census data to determine the demographic distribution of the PA workforce and PA-to-population relationships. Maps were developed to provi...

BACKGROUND Small numbers of tests with pending results are documented in hospital discharge summaries leading to breakdown in communication and medical errors due to inadequate followup. OBJECTIVE Evaluate effect of using a computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system to enforce documentation of tests with pending results into hospital discharge summaries. METHODS We assessed the percent...