Background: From 2016 to 2018, advanced practice provider (APP) utilization in academic hospital medicine groups (HMGs) has increased by 23.6%, with 75.7% of academic HMGs now employing APPs. Due to a lack of standardization around APP utilization, and the frequent use of shared billing models, determination of return on investment for APPs is challenging and [...]

Background: Advanced practice providers (APPs) such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants have become an important addition to the hospital medicine team with the growing demand for physician providers. As APPs experience variable exposure to hospital medicine during training, the Society of Hospital Medicine and other governing bodies such as the American Academy of Physician [...]

Background: Prior to this project, inpatient Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) at UW Health lacked organizational data including volumes, patient experience, hospital acquired conditions, and operational efficiency metrics. In 2016, inpatient APPs collaborated with UW Health’s Analytics and Information Systems team to develop a method for inpatient APP attribution and identification of team-based, APP sensitive metrics [...]