Physician assistants as physician extenders in the pediatric intensive care unit setting - A 5-year experience

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-19

  Mathur, Mudit ^a   Rampersad, Angeli ^a   Howard, Kathleen ^a   Goldman, Gilbert M ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Accreditation council for graduate medical education; Clinical care model; Education; Pediatric intensive care unit, physician assistant; Physician extender

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL; ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; ECONOMICS; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORK;

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; JOB DESCRIPTION; NEW YORK CITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS;

EID: 21744458796     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000149133.50687.A1     Document Type: Article

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