Nurse practitioners and physicians: patients' perceived health and satisfaction with care.
The advent of managed care has created changes in the health care environment and nurse practitioners have found a need to evaluate their care. Perceived health and patient satisfaction were measured in a multiethnic sample of 160 clinic patients, ages 18 to 89, in a managed care setting. Results of the Medical Outcomes Study SF-20 and the Nurse Practitioner Satisfaction Instrument indicated no statistically significant difference in perceived health and satisfaction with care, whether the care was given by a nurse practitioner or a primary care physician. The findings warrant further study and may mean that nurse practitioners placed in managed care environments can be expected to perform as effectively as they have in non-managed care environments.
Pinkerton
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School of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, P.O. Box 19407, Arlington, TX 76014, USA. pinkerton@uta.edu
Bush
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008875:Middle Aged; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000592:standards*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010465:Perception; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care