Quality of Diabetes Care in Family Medicine Practices: Influence of Nurse-Practitioners and Physician's Assistants

1 January 2008

journal article
research article
Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine

Vol. 6 (1) , 14-22
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.758

Abstract

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess whether the quality of diabetes care differs among practices employing nurse-practitioners (NPs), physician’s assistants (PAs), or neither, and which practice attributes contribute to any differences in care.

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