title: The promise of nurse practitioners.
abstract: The U.S. health care system is more costly per person, is less accessible, focuses on more intensive levels of care, and has poorer outcomes than any other industrialized country in the world. Several solutions for these problems are suggested and all of these rely on the full use of nurse practitioners.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States