Although deployment of NPs and PAs varies across regional VHA networks (Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs), many of these networks have been frontrunners in the utilization of nonphysician providers with respect to both numbers of PAs and NPs and to relative autonomy and responsibility in clinical care [ 15- 17].
The study data regarding the utilization of alternative providers indicates that the most commonly visited healthcare providers other than physicians were massage therapists, chiropractors, and acupuncturists.
Although there was a significant change in utilization of skilled providers care during pregnancy, delivery and after delivery, however there is still a need for more motivation since a large proportion of mothers did not report for skilled providers care in the low performing areas.
(Provider 3, nurse practitioner) Ineffective communication and utilization of providers' time in the clinic can negatively affect the development of HCE.
Further, these women might benefit from expanded discussions with ED providers in initiatives that try to increase patient utilization of these methods.
As regards nurse practitioners, the availability and utilization of primary care providers may affect the frequency of preventive cancer screenings.
This paper analyzes the before and after changes in the demand for curative ambulatory health services focusing on the association of income-related characteristics and the utilization of formal healthcare providers vs. no healthcare service utilization.
In light of growing interest in ART-related healthcare pluralism, this multisite South African study examined utilization of additional health providers and self-purchased health products concurrently with ART services.
CW shared neither the higher economic status of the RT nor the accessibility of a work-place clinic or factory-arranged referral to a private clinic, and this probably explains their relatively greater utilization of government healthcare providers for GI problems.
The increased number of CSBAs, in addition to the integrated approach of the intervention, showed improvements in utilization of skilled provider care by mothers.
