Are nurses an answer to new primary care needs?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-154

  Jauhar, Sandeep ^a,b   Battinelli, David ^a,b  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLONOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NURSE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 84904386039     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1308     Document Type: Editorial

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