Redesigning the Role of Medical Assistants in Primary Care: Challenges and Strategies During Implementation.
Med Care Res Rev
; 78(3): 240-250, 2021 06.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31411120
ABSTRACT
Efforts to reform primary care increasingly focus on redesigning care in ways that utilize nonprovider staff such as medical assistants (MAs), but the implementation of MA role redesign efforts remains understudied in the U.S. health care literature. This article draws on rich, longitudinal case study data collected from four health care systems across the United States to examine critical challenges in the planning, implementation, and early sustainment of MA role redesign efforts in primary care. During the planning period, challenges included recruitment of highly trained MAs, compliance with organizational and state regulations regarding MA scope of practice, provision of consistent training across primary care clinics, and creation of career ladders that provided tiered compensation for MAs. During active implementation, challenges included provider training and preventing MA burnout. Strategies for addressing challenges in MA role redesign efforts are discussed, as well as early sustainment of program practices and organizational policies.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Esgotamento Profissional
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Pessoal Técnico de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article