Advanced Practice Providers in Departments of Family Medicine: Status, Supervision, and Services

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Table 1.

Factors Influencing Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Employment and Frequency of Priority Levels

Factors	Primary Factor (%)	Secondary Factor (%)	Tertiary Factor (%)	Not Rated (%)
Access to care	52 (49.1)	21 (19.8)	9 (8.4)	27 (24.8)
Filling in gaps	18 (17.0)	30 (28.3)	21 (19.2)	40 (36.7)
Finances	11 (10.4)	10 (9.4)	22 (20.2)	66 (60.6)
Inability to hire physicians	10 (9.4)	18 (17.0)	7 (6.4)	74 (67.9)
Optimizing patient satisfaction	0 (0)	4 (3.8)	7 (6.4)	98 (89.9)
Sharing the workload	10 (9.4)	17 (16.0)	24 (22)	58 (53.2)
Other	5 (4.7)	3 (2.8)	10 (9.2)	94 (86.2)

Table 2.

Current and Preferred Services Offered by Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) (out of 87 Respondents)

Service	Currently Performed (%)	Not Currently Performed (%)	Preferred (%)	Not Preferred (%)
Complex chronic conditions complicated by coexisting conditions or not yet controlled	64 (73.6)	23 (26.4)	32 (36.8)	55 (63.2)
Care coordination at care transitions	62 (71.3)	25 (28.7)	67 (77.0)	20 (23.0)
Follow-up for abnormal screening results	64 (73.6)	22 (25.3)	61 (70.1)	26 (29.9)
Population health management	51 (58.6)	36 (41.4)	69 (79.3)	18 (20.7)