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-thirdEstablishment of SEP-1 national practice guidelines does not impact fluid administration for septic shock patients
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