2022
Rising high‐acuity emergency care services independently billed by advanced practice providers, 2013 to 2019
Gettel C, Schuur J, Mullen J, Venkatesh A. Rising high‐acuity emergency care services independently billed by advanced practice providers, 2013 to 2019. Academic Emergency Medicine 2022, 30: 89-98. PMID: 36334276, PMCID: PMC10973948, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14625.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvanced practice providersEmergency care servicesCare servicesClinician typeED encountersClinician levelPractice providersHigh acuityEM physiciansHigh-acuity visitsRepeated cross-sectional analysisHigh-acuity servicesEmergency medicine workforceCross-sectional analysisEmergency cliniciansPractice patternsLow acuityRelative increaseEmergency careAcuity levelsMedicare Part BAcuityOutcome proportionsPhysiciansOne-third
2021
Simulating approaches to emergency department pandemic physician staffing during COVID-19.
Sangal RB, Venkatesh AK, Kinsman J, Dashevsky M, Scofi JE, Ulrich A. Simulating approaches to emergency department pandemic physician staffing during COVID-19. American Journal Of Disaster Medicine 2021, 16: 85-93. PMID: 34392521, DOI: 10.5055/ajdm.2021.0391.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency departmentInfection rateStaffing modelsPercent infection rateCohort modelHigher infection rateInfectious disease outbreaksEmergency physiciansED staffAvailable physiciansThree-teamWeek 5Health systemEM physiciansPhysiciansAdequate staffingImmunityPhysician attritionCOVID-19CohortDisease outbreaksPandemicPandemic disasterWeeks
2020
Who provides what care? An analysis of clinical focus among the national emergency care workforce
Gettel CJ, Canavan ME, D'Onofrio G, Carr BG, Venkatesh AK. Who provides what care? An analysis of clinical focus among the national emergency care workforce. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2020, 42: 228-232. PMID: 33298349, PMCID: PMC8005412, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.11.069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvanced practice providersEmergency care workforceMedicare feeClinical focusEM physiciansED cliniciansED settingPublic Use FileService beneficiariesMedicare Public Use FilesCare workforceImproved patient outcomesCross-sectional analysisUnique cliniciansPrimary outcomePatient outcomesCare EvaluationClinician expertisePractice providersEmergency careIndividual cliniciansClinical settingPractice settingsCliniciansPhysicians