The authors focused on one type of extender physician assistants pas who are typically air force corpsmen with one year of classroom and one year of clinical training the general conclusions were the following in typical air force primary adult medicine clinics pas can substitute for physicians one to one for 80 90 percent of the patients whose problems lie within the pas expertise . Costs productivity and the utilization of physicians extenders in air force primary medicine clinics author joan l buchanan subject this report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physician extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective created . This report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physicians extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective specifically it examines the productivity of extenders in outpatient care and the costs of procuring and using extenders. Costs productivity and the utilization of physicians extenders in air force primary medicine clinics this report addresses the question of whether the extensive use of physician extenders nonphysicians trained to perform some of the medical and administrative tasks traditionally performed by physicians in air force hospitals is cost effective specifically it examines the productivity of . D r148 994 costs productivity and the utilization of physicianss le i extenders in aip fu rand corp santa monica ca j buchanan et al jun 83 rand r 2896 af ucaeeee962 heeeeeeei 5 n eohheeeemhohhi mhemoheeeeoheee smmhhemhmhohhe smhmhhhemhee vvimcm t ililli w 128 112 1 14 microcopy reuio tes chart 004w 9spa 0 staodards 93 a i lmkn in pdal gnuhanad hamk con 4u for publculr t