Use of physician's assistants in a general surgical practice.
A study has been made of three PAS employed in a rural, small town, general surgical practice during a four year period. Their work was equally divided among three areas: minor trauma, obtaining and recording data for history and physical examinations, and assisting at routine surgical procedures and endoscopies. This resulted in a significant saving of time for each surgeon who was thus freed for more time in the care of the more critically ill or injured patients.
D013502:General Surgery; D008318:Malpractice; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000078329:Workforce