Process and Outcome Measures among COPD Patients with a Hospitalization Cared for by an Advance Practice Provider or Primary Care Physician.

OBJECTIVES:To examine the process and outcomes of care of COPD patients by Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and primary care physicians. METHODS:We conducted a cross sectional retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with COPD who had at least one hospitalization in 2010. We examined t...

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Main Authors: Amitesh Agarwal, Wei Zhang, YongFang Kuo, Gulshan Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4765888?pdf=render