Physician perceptions of nurse practitioners: a replication study.
OBJECTIVE
To replicate and update findings from an earlier study on the perceived incentives of physicians to work with nurse practitioners (NPs).


METHODS
Four hundred and three questionnaires were mailed to NPs who distributed them to their collaborating physicians.


CONCLUSIONS
Physicians ranked "accessibility to health care" and the "quality of care" as equally important and more important than "physician satisfaction" and "economic incentives." The findings were consistent with findings from the earlier study; however, the original study demonstrated a much clearer distinction among the four groups of incentives.


CONCLUSIONS
These findings imply that collaboration between physicians and NPs is maturing as NPs move into more arenas in health care.
Running
Alice
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Orvis School of Nursing, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA. running@unr.edu
Hoffman
Lisa
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Mercer
Victoria
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009505:Nevada; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires