With physician shortages and the high cost of employing physicians, APPs have become a mainstay of care teams. The following is an extended excerpt from a HealthLeaders story published in August.

Advanced practice providers (APPs) have lower productivity compared with emergency department physicians, seeing fewer and less complex patients and generating less relative value units per hour, and ...

APPs can help to ensure patient access to quality urology care amid a shrinking urologist workforce. Proper use of advanced practice providers (APPs) may significantly improve patient care and ...

Somewhere in the hospital, an alarm goes off. A panicked crowd begins to form inside a patient’s room, where a monitor reveals a flat line and a woman lies equally still on a bed. In moments, a ...

CHECKUP: Dr. Obie Cuento with a patient at a Mercy Urgent Care clinic prior to his retirement. Currently, six physicians work across Mercy’s eight facilities, including one permanent on-site physician ...

A survey was administered to directors of advanced practice provider fellowship programs in hospital medicine to characterize the existing fellowships. Hospital medicine fellowship programs to further ...

Advanced practice providers (APPs) have lower productivity compared with emergency department physicians, seeing fewer and less complex patients and generating less relative value units per hour, and ...

As the number of cancer survivors grows, new models of survivorship care are being implemented, but there is limited evaluation to date. This retrospective review assesses the concordance of care ...

April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...

Advanced Practice Providers at Essentia Health have filed an election with the National Labor Relations Board for an election to unionize. A date has not been determined yet. Nurse practitioners, ...