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Family nurse practitioners: "value add" in outpatient chronic disease management
1Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Santa Monica, CA 90095, USA. lmstephens@mednet.ucla.edu
Abstract:
Nurse practitioners are capable leaders in primary care design as practices nationwide move to consider and adopt the patient-centered medical home. The chronic care model provides a structure to enhance the care of chronic illness. Nurse practitioners are instrumental in many areas of this model as both leaders and caregivers. Safety and quality are basic medical home goals; nurse practitioners enhance both. The addition of a nurse practitioner to a practice is an effective "value add" in every way.
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