Organizing and Investing to Expand Primary Care Availability with Nurse Practitioners

This paper delineates the crisis facing the country because of a growing shortage of primary care physicians. Nurse practitioners will not only provide cost-effective episodic and comprehensive primary care, but also improve the quality of care and life for those with chronic diseases while controll...

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Published in:Journal of community health 2012-04, Vol.37 (2), p.265-269
Main Authors: Levin, Peter J., Bateman, Rick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Health Care
Commentary
Community and Environmental Psychology
Ethics
Financial Support
Health care expenditures
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Models, Organizational
Nurse Practitioners
Nurse's Role
Physicians
Physicians, Primary Care - supply & distribution
Practice Patterns, Nurses' - economics
Practice Patterns, Nurses' - organization & administration
Primary care
Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care - economics
Primary Health Care - manpower
Primary Health Care - organization & administration
United States
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Summary:This paper delineates the crisis facing the country because of a growing shortage of primary care physicians. Nurse practitioners will not only provide cost-effective episodic and comprehensive primary care, but also improve the quality of care and life for those with chronic diseases while controlling individual and system-wide health care costs.
ISSN:0094-5145
1573-3610
DOI:10.1007/s10900-011-9537-5