Nurse practitioners and physicians are simila : vimarsana.com

<p>A study of more than 73,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) suggest that &nbsp;both are similarly likely to inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients. According to the authors, this study adds to growing evidence indicating that when prescriptive authority is expanded to include NPs, these new prescribers do not perform worse than physicians. The study is published in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine.</em></p>

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