Background: Painful diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are commonly performed in the emergency department (ED). Previous investigations indicate that practitioners frequently do not provide adequate anesthesia for painful medical procedures. Patients indicate they would like to receive local anesthesia prior to a painful procedure, but often it is not offered. Topical anesthetics have been recommended as […]

Background: Staffing of inpatient medicine services with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, is becoming increasingly common at academic medical centers across the United States. The various roles filled by APPs have not been well-described in the literature. The purpose of this study is to better characterize how APPs are utilized […]