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May 16, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A study finds that 96 percent of nurse practitioners and 76 percent of physicians agreed with IOM report recommendation that “nurse practitioners should be able to practice to the full extent of their education and training.”
May 16, 2013 | Journal Article
This study suggests that increasing the scope of nurse practitioners’ duties remains controversial.
May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
March 20, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
More U.S. medical students “matched” to primary care residency positions this year than in 2012, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program.
February 14, 2013 | Issue Brief
People actively involved in their health and health care tend to have better outcomes—and, some evidence suggests, lower costs. As a result, many public and private health care organizations are employing strategies to better engage patients.
January 29, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A report completed this month examines how the Affordable Care Act will affect the nation’s supply of physicians.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Alfred Berg is an associate editor of Journal of the American Board of Family Practice and chairs the US Preventive Services Task Force of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
December 5, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Two new studies show the nation’s younger primary care physicians may find it hard to recover from their medical school debt.
December 1, 2012 | Report
This evaluation was of a program that sought to incorporate effective health behavior counseling into routine primary care.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper analyzes the effect of the Massachusetts health care reform on reported health care utilization and outcomes by both synthesizing the existing research and providing new evidence using the National Health Interview Survey.