Quality of HIV Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Physicians

  1. Ira B. Wilson, MD, MSc;
  2. Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA;
  3. Lisa R. Hirschhorn, MD, MPH;
  4. Keith McInnes, MS;
  5. Lin Ding, PhD;
  6. Peter V. Marsden, PhD; and
  7. Paul D. Cleary, PhD
  1. From the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    1. Figure 1. QI = quality improvement.
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      Figure 1. QI = quality improvement. Diagram of study design.
    2. Figure 2.  < 0.001 for the difference in total visits for patients for whom a physician was the primary HIV care provider (6.6 visits) and patients for whom a nurse practitioner ( ) or physician assistant ( ) was the primary HIV care provider (7.4 visits).
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      Figure 2.  < 0.001 for the difference in total visits for patients for whom a physician was the primary HIV care provider (6.6 visits) and patients for whom a nurse practitioner ( ) or physician assistant ( ) was the primary HIV care provider (7.4 visits). Distribution of visits by primary HIV provider type.PNPPA

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