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Category: Advanced Practice Providers
Nurse Practitioners are not Doctors, They’re Better
In an era of physician shortages and insurance expansion, the American health system is struggling to keep pace with increasing demand from patients. Although the last decade has produced some growth in the number of American medical schools, residency programs Continue Reading …
Saving Primary Care, One NP at a Time
This meta-analysis by Martinez-Gonzalez and colleagues examined the effects of task-shifting from physicians to nurse practitioners in primary care. Twenty studies included in the meta-analysis all compared nurse-led care with physician-led care in general practices, including frequency and length of Continue Reading …
Mid-level providers are moving on up
Over the past several decades, there has been a dire need for primary care services across the United States, especially in rural and poor urban settings. This need has increased dramatically with more citizens insured through the . Mid-level providers Continue Reading …
Can MLPs lead the care team?
Primary care will be delivered increasingly by non-physician clinicians in the future. How will patients fare? There is an increasing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the United States and it is projected that US medical schools will not Continue Reading …
Nurses: the cure for what ails us
A new Health Affairs/RWJF policy brief highlights federal and state laws which limit the extent to which providers. A predicted clinician shortage will worsen as millions of people become insured as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In Continue Reading …
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