The term scope of practice is used to specify the extent of privileges permitted by state law for a given class of allied health provider based on specific criteria like education, training, experience, and special qualifications. There is no defined scope of practice for physicians. Under most ...
Purpose Scope of practice of family physicians (FPs) has been decreasing overall. Our objective was to determine if the distribution of declining scope occurs across urban and rural settings. Methods We used secondary data from practicing FPs collected on the American Board of Family Medicine ...
Determining components of care that remain integral to the practice of family medicine may be informed by assessing gaps between the intended scope of practice of residents and actual scope of practice of family physicians. Objective To compare intended scope of practice for American Board of Family...
Adapting methods from prior studies,25,26 we used provider specialty codes to identify carrier claims by primary care providers (ie, primary care clinicians), including NPs, physician assistants, and generalist physicians (ie, general practice, family practice, internal medicine, osteopathic medicine, ...
To guide the design of the survey, we developed a conceptual framework for assessing the impact of medical donations (Fig. 1). Data collected as part of a medical donation program can be classified based on whether they describe the resources used, the outcome observed at the program level, ...
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont recently signed into law Public Act No. 19-98 “An Act Concerning The Scope Of Practice Of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses” (PA 19-98), which generally expands the scope of practice for...more Potential paradigm shift in the treatment of mild traumatic brain...
Bioimpedance Monitoring for Physicians Electrical Bioimpedance Monitoring is an emerging tool for biomedical research and for medical practice. It constitutes one of the diagnostic methods based on the study… Read More by downloading the PDF What is Impedance?
clinicians who entered the marketplace after 2016. Assessing scope of training relied on coders’ judgment based on residency and fellowship training and did not consider that some physicians may have additional training. Scope of training was underestimated because it was defined at the company level...
Research Objectives: The AIM of this study was to compare the distribution of nationally certified nurse practitioners' (NP) practice location between states with and without restrictions on NP independent practice to determine whether states which allow for independent NP practice are more likely to ...
The American Journal of Medicine- "The Green Journal" - publishes original clinical research of interest to physicians ininternal medicine, both in academia and community-based practice.AJMis the official journal of theAlliance for Academic Internal Medicine, a prestigious group comprising internal medic...