Introducing physician associates to hospital patients: Development and feasibility testing of a patient experience‐based intervention

摘要

Physician associates (PAs) are one of many new mid‐level health practitioner roles being introduced worldwide. They are a recent innovation in English hospitals. Patient confusion with novel mid‐level practitioner titles and roles is well documented, alongside evidence of a positive association between patients’ ability to identify practitioners and patient satisfaction. No prior research developed an intervention to introduce PAs or any other new practitioner role to hospital patients.