UCLA Study Shows NPs Are Critical in Care of Chronic Geriatric Conditions
A recent study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society by researchers with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA examined whether a set of measures--known as Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) quality indicators--were performed for four chronic geriatric conditions of 1,804 pateints screened at two primary care facilities in Southern California: falls, urinary incontinence, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. For patients whose cases were co-managed by a nurse practitioner and a physician, the percentage of quality indicators that were satisfied was higher than for patients seen only by a physician. The study, whose lead author is Hartford Grantee David B. Reuben, MD, concluded that nurse practitioner co-management is associated with better quality of care for geriatric condictions in community-based primary care than usual case using the ACOVE-2 model.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society by researchers with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA examined whether a set of measures--known as Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) quality indicators--were performed for four chronic geriatric conditions of 1,804 pateints screened at two primary care facilities in Southern California: falls, urinary incontinence, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. For patients whose cases were co-managed by a nurse practitioner and a physician, the percentage of quality indicators that were satisfied was higher than for patients seen only by a physician. The study, whose lead author is Hartford Grantee David B. Reuben, MD, concluded that nurse practitioner co-management is associated with better quality of care for geriatric condictions in community-based primary care than usual case using the ACOVE-2 model.
Read the article on Nurse.com here; read the study abstract in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society here.
