About half of U.S. MDs, and many nurse practitioners and physician assistants, wish their field could go back in time, before the advent of quality metrics and penalties for failure to meet certain national standards.
With the medical industry coming under increasing scrutiny for quality and cost performance, The Commonwealth Fund and the Kaiser Family Foundation decided to ask the caregivers what they thought about such matters. They were also asked whether advances in IT services made their jobs better or worse.
The study reported was divided into two categories: responses by physicians and the combined responses of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, despite the fact that the training received by NPs and PAs, and their job descriptions, are quite different from one another.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
