title: Outcomes manager: a role for the advanced practice nurse.
abstract: Outcomes management offers the advanced practice nurse an opportunity to lead interdisciplinary providers in the restructuring of health care services across the continuum of care. Within an outcomes management framework, the advanced practice nurse functions as an attending nurse for a population of patients by overseeing interdisciplinary care delivery and outcomes measurement and refining standardized practices to achieve best practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Texas at Houston, USA.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Wojner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kite-Powell
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D015399:Nursing Research; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care