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1Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University, Normal 61790, USA. nriden@ilstu.edu
Abstract:
Developing, measuring, and reporting clinical outcomes is challenging for all health care providers. Nurse practitioners are qualified and suited to work with developmentally disabled clients and their special needs. A review of current literature shows that several isolated studies on clinically relevant topics have been published. Strategies are explained here to assist nurse practitioners in developing systems for tracking individual client data and for creating outcome-based networks to increase the generalizability of findings.
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