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Physician Assistants in Primary Care: Trends and Characteristics

Bettie Coplan, James Cawley and James Stoehr
The Annals of Family Medicine January 2013, 11 (1) 75-79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1432
Bettie Coplan
1Physician Assistant Program, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Glendale Campus, Glendale, Arizona
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  • For correspondence: bettie.coplan@nau.edu
James Cawley
2School of Public Health and Health Services and School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washing ton, DC
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James Stoehr
3Physician Assistant Program, College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Glendale Campus, Glendale, Arizona
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    Percentage of physician assistants practicing in primary care by demographic characteristics: point estimates and 95% confidence intervals.

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    Trend in the percentage of primary care PAs by year of graduation from 1975 to 2008. PA = physician assistant.

    Note: Trend analysis (regression) included data for all responding graduates. Plot was started at graduation year of 1975 because of limited data from PAs graduating between 1965 and 1974.

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