Patient Safety: Physician Assistant Responsibilities and Opportunities

在与医生的团队合作关系中，PA今天为超过2.9亿患者提供服务。 每年访问。私人助理工作在所有的卫生保健环境和专业，医生通常提供 在乎PA在帮助促进患者安全和医生服务质量方面处于关键地位。 美国医师助理学会（AAP），唯一的国家专业 组织的PA，希望提高病人的安全和护理质量的关注， 更好地使所有环境中的私人助理变得更加积极和负责任 参与患者安全和质量改进过程。 为此，AAPA建议在2010年召开一个由国家领导人组成的咨询委员会， 患者安全和质量改进，以确定五到八个患者安全实践，其中PA 可以参与或领导以可衡量的方式提高患者安全和护理质量的工作。 一个基于案例的，模块化的会议继续医学教育计划将被创建，并在AAPA年度会议上提出。 会议以及八到十个州和专业PA组织在他们的年度CME 两会AAPA预计将通过这个会议系列计划达到3,000多个PA。 一篇文章总结了协商一致会议的结果和 会议计划将编制并发表在美国科学院杂志上。 医师助理，在国内和国际上发行超过62，000个PA。的 讲座系列的信息和文章也将发布在AAPA网站上， 每月点击量超过五百万 该项目的主要研究者将是AAPA的执行副总裁/首席执行官Stephen起重机，博士 也是健康服务研究协会的前副主席AAPA质量护理 委员会将负责本项目的内容。咨询委员会和 质量控制委员会会议、演讲、出版物和网站材料将通过 AAPA。 患者安全：医生助理的责任和机会 系列会议将为PA提供实施有效系统的知识和技能 提高患者安全性的策略，以适应其特定的患者护理环境，从而 有助于提高公共卫生机构和患者提供的医疗保健的整体质量 与他们一起工作的专业人士。

Working in a team relationship with physicians, PAs today provide over 290 million patient visits per year. PAs work in all health care settings and specialties where physicians normally provide care. PAs are in a critical position to help promote patient safety and the quality of physician services. The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAP), the only national professional organization for PAs, wishes to raise the visibility of patient safety and quality of care concerns in the profession generally and better enable PAs in all settings to become more active and accountable participants in patient safety and quality improvement processes. To these ends, AAPA proposes to convene an advisory committee of national leaders in patient safety and quality improvement to identify five to eight patient safety practices in which PAs can participate or lead that would advance patient safety and the quality of care in measurable ways. A case-based, modular conference CME program will be created and presented at the AAPA annual conference as well as eight to ten state and specialty PA organizations at their annual CME conferences. AAPA expects to reach over 3,000 PAs through this conference series program. An article summarizing the results of the consensus meeting and the proceedings of the conference program will be prepared and published in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, with a circulation of over 62,000 PAs nationally and internationally. The information from the lecture series and the article also will be posted on the AAPA Web site, which has over 5 million hits per month. The Principal Investigator for the project will be Stephen Crane, PhD, EVP/CEO of the AAPA and formerly vice president of the Association for Health Services Research. The AAPA Quality Care Committee will be responsible for the content of this project. Staffing for the advisory committee and QCC meetings, lecture presentations, publications and Web site material will be provided through the AAPA. Public Description: The Patient Safety: Physician Assistant Responsibilities and Opportunities conference series will provide PAs with the knowledge and skills to implement effective system strategies to improve patient safety appropriate to their particular patient care setting, and thus contribute to improvements in the overall quality of health care provided by PAs and those patient care professionals with whom they work.