Resource Utilization in Non-Academic Emergency Departments with Advanced Practice Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Advanced practice providers (APP), including physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners, have been increasingly incorporated into emergency department (ED) staffing over the past decade. There is scant literature examining resource utilization and the cost benefit of having APPs in the ED. The objectives of this study were to compare resource utilization in EDs that use APPs in their staffing model with those that do not and to estimate costs associated with the utilized resources.

Methods

In this five-year retrospective secondary data analysis of the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA), we compared resource utilization rates in EDs with and without APPs in non-academic EDs. Primary outcomes were hospital admission and use of computed tomograph

SUBMITTER: Aledhaim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625685 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature