title: Piloting web-based NAMCS data collection for nurse-managed centers.
abstract: Research consistently has shown that Nurse Practitioners (NPs) provide health care equivalent to that of physicians, and especially excel in patient education and case management, essential interventions to promote self-care in chronically ill ambulatory patients. Yet large-scale national studies have not been done. Nurse-managed centers are not included in the sampling frame of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and only 2.1% of the 2000 sample was from patient encounters with NPs.1 The aims of this pilot study were to create a web-based format for the NAMCS; to expand it by adding selected nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes; and to pilot-test it with 300 patient encounters in 5 nurse-managed centers.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Melinda L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Jeungok
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D009736:Nursing Process; D010865:Pilot Projects