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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. · Mar 2012
ReviewThe use of nonphysician providers in adult intensive care units.
- Hayley B Gershengorn, Mary P Johnson, and Phillip Factor.
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA. hgershengorn@chpnet.org
- Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2012 Mar 15;185(6):600-5.
AbstractIn the United States there are not currently enough critical care-trained practitioners to provide care to all critically ill patients. With calls for "high-intensity" staffing and 24-hour coverage of our intensive care units, the board-certified intensivists we do have are being stretched ever more thin. Nonphysician providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners) are being used with increasing frequency in critical care settings to provide care to critically ill patients. In this review, we explore the impact of introducing nonphysician providers into the adult intensive care unit.
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