Impact of Hospital-Employed Physician Assistants on a Level II Community-Based Orthopaedic Trauma System

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages e87-e91

  Althausen, Peter L ^a   Shannon, Steven ^a   Owens, Brianne ^b   Coll, Daniel ^b   Cvitash, Michael ^c   Lu, Minggen ^c   O'Mara, Timothy J ^c   Bray, Timothy J ^c  

^a Reno Orthopaedic Clinc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Physician assistant; Trauma system

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOMS; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84875843920     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3182647f29     Document Type: Article

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