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The Quality and Effectiveness of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners
Julie Stanik-Hutt,Robin P. Newhouse,Kathleen M. White,Meg Johantgen,Eric B Bass,George A. Zangaro,Renee F Wilson,Lily Fountain,Donald M. Steinwachs,Lou Heindel,Jonathan P. Weiner +10 more
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Evidence indicated better serum lipid levels in patients cared for by NPs in primary care settings and that patient outcomes on satisfaction with care, health status, functional status, number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations, blood glucose, blood pressure, and mortality are similar for NPs and MDs.About:
This article is published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 238 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care quality & Emergency department.read more
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Quality of primary care by advanced practice nurses: a systematic review.
TL;DR: There were few differences in primary care provided by APNs and physicians; for some measures APN care was superior; these data suggest that the APN workforce is well-positioned to provide safe and effective primary care.
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Rural And Nonrural Primary Care Physician Practices Increasingly Rely On Nurse Practitioners
TL;DR: This work found increasing NP presence in both rural and nonrural primary care practices in the period 2008-16, and found states with full scope-of-practice laws had the highest NP presence, but the fastest growth occurred in states with reduced and restricted scopes of practice.
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Rethinking the Primary Care Workforce — An Expanded Role for Nurses
Thomas Bodenheimer,Laurie Bauer +1 more
TL;DR: In the U.S. primary care practice of the future, the physician's role will increasingly be played by nurse practitioners, and the 150 million adults with one or more chronic conditions will receive some of their care from registered nurses functioning as care managers.
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New Nurse Practitioners’ Perceptions of Preparedness for and Transition Into Practice
Ann Marie Hart,Anne M. Bowen +1 more
TL;DR: A national sample of 698 licensed NPs who graduated between 2006 and 2011 and were practicing as NPs in the United States completed a survey related to clinical preparation and practice transition.
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Systematic review of whether nurse practitioners working in primary care can provide equivalent care to doctors
TL;DR: Patients are more satisfied with care from a nurse practitioner than from a doctor, with no difference in health outcomes Nurse practitioners provide longer consultations and carry out more investigations than doctors.
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Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care
Miranda Laurant,David Reeves,Rosella P.M.G. Hermens,Jose Braspenning,Richard Grol,Bonnie Sibbald +5 more
TL;DR: Evaluating the impact of doctor-nurse substitution in primary care on patient outcomes, process of care, and resource utilisation suggested that appropriately trained nurses can produce as high quality care as primary care doctors and achieve as good health outcomes for patients.
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Trials to assess equivalence: the importance of rigorous methods
TL;DR: The aim of an equivalence trial is to show the therapeutic equivalence of two treatments, usually a new drug under development and an existing drug for the same disease used as a standard active comparator.
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Primary care outcomes in patients treated by nurse practitioners or physicians: a randomized trial.
Mary O. Mundinger,Robert L. Kane,Elizabeth R. Lenz,Annette M Totten,Wei-Yann Tsai,Paul D. Cleary,William T. Friedewald,Albert L. Siu,Michael L. Shelanski +8 more
TL;DR: In an ambulatory care situation in which patients were randomly assigned to either nurse practitioners or physicians, and where nurse practitioners had the same authority, responsibilities, productivity and administrative requirements, and patient population as primary care physicians, patients' outcomes were comparable.
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Effectiveness of collaborative care for older adults with Alzheimer disease in primary care: a randomized controlled trial.
Christopher M. Callahan,Malaz Boustani,Frederick W. Unverzagt,Mary Guerriero Austrom,Teresa M. Damush,Anthony J. Perkins,Bridget A. Fultz,Siu L. Hui,Steven R. Counsell,Hugh C. Hendrie +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of a collaborative care model to improve the quality of care for patients with Alzheimer disease and found that the intervention patients were more likely to receive cholinesterase inhibitors (79.8% vs 55.1%) and antidepressants (45.2% vs 27.5%).