The evidence is clear: PAs provide Safe, High-Quality Care.

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  • Research Articles

    The literature is clear: PAs improve patient access and provide high-quality, safe patient care.

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  • Harris Poll

    Illinois residents overwhelmingly support and trust PAs as health care providers and want PA practice laws updated to increase access to care.

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  • "…clinicians are complementing each other with nurse practitioners and physician assistants having a greater focus on some types of visits, possibly where their training and expertise is best suited.”

    Patel, et al. (2023) - The BMJ/Harvard Medical School

  • “PAs delivered the same or better care outcomes as physicians with the same or less cost of care.”

    van den Brink et al. (2021) - PLOS one

  • "...relaxing PA scope-of-practice laws reduces these [preventable] deaths by 10 per 100,000, with larger reductions in rural areas."

    McMichael (2023) - Journal of Public Economics

  • “We found that use of NPs and PAs as primary care providers for complex patients with diabetes was associated with less use of acute care services and lower total costs.”

    Morgan, et al. (2019) - Health Affairs