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JOURNAL CLUB: Article claims that NPs, PCPs have same rate of inappropriate prescribing to seniors
Manage episode 412613390 series 2828078
In today's episode, Teresa Camp-Rogers, MD, MS analyzes a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the American College of Physicians, entitled
Inappropriate Prescribing to Older Patients by Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Physicians
The article, which seems to call for an expansion of unsupervised practice for NPs, contends that NPs and physicians showed no differences in inappropriate prescribing to seniors based on Beers criteria, however, notes that NPs were overrepresented among clinicians with the highest and lowest rates of inappropriate prescribing.
Dr. Camp-Rogers points out that since most NPs are practicing under physician supervision, with an estimated 2-6% of NPs practicing without physician supervision, this study may simply prove what other studies have established: the physician-led care model works - NOT that unsupervised practice is safe. Further, she argues that this study begs a follow-up question: with such variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing by NPs, what do we know about which NPs were in the top and which were in the bottom?
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m23-0827
Get the books! https://www.amazon.com/Imposter-Doctors-Patients-at-Risk/dp/1627344438/
PhysiciansForPatientProtection.org
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Manage episode 412613390 series 2828078
In today's episode, Teresa Camp-Rogers, MD, MS analyzes a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the American College of Physicians, entitled
Inappropriate Prescribing to Older Patients by Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Physicians
The article, which seems to call for an expansion of unsupervised practice for NPs, contends that NPs and physicians showed no differences in inappropriate prescribing to seniors based on Beers criteria, however, notes that NPs were overrepresented among clinicians with the highest and lowest rates of inappropriate prescribing.
Dr. Camp-Rogers points out that since most NPs are practicing under physician supervision, with an estimated 2-6% of NPs practicing without physician supervision, this study may simply prove what other studies have established: the physician-led care model works - NOT that unsupervised practice is safe. Further, she argues that this study begs a follow-up question: with such variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing by NPs, what do we know about which NPs were in the top and which were in the bottom?
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m23-0827
Get the books! https://www.amazon.com/Imposter-Doctors-Patients-at-Risk/dp/1627344438/
PhysiciansForPatientProtection.org
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