Complexity of Ambulatory CareNurse Practitioner And Physician Caseloads
作者:
DONNA DIERS,
ALLEGRA HAMMAN,
SUSAN MOLDE,
期刊:
Nursing Research
(OVID Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 5
页码: 310-314
ISSN:0029-6562
年代: 1986
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The case mix of patient caseloads of nurse practitioners (NPs), faculty attending physicians (F/MDs), and resident housestaff in an inner-city teaching hospital was examined. Social and demographic variables as well as diagnoses, medications, risks, and functional status were used to define complexity. Charts of 111 patients (37 per group) were analyzed. Patients of NPs and F/MDs were essentially equally complex, but residents' patients were somewhat less complicated. Differences in styles of practice were seen, with NPs attending more to symptoms of nonpathological conditions, comfort, and comprehensiveness of care. Scope of practice, complexity, and system of care are suggested as important variables to consider in future studies of NPs and in studies relating case mix to productivity and resource consumption.
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