November 28th, 2018
Podcast 225: Managing diabetes in primary care — are there quality differences among NPs, PAs, and MDs?
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Does the diabetes care afforded by NPs and PAs match that of MDs? According to a careful analysis among Veterans Affairs patients there are no clinical differences in intermediate outcomes — hemoglobin A1c, systolic pressure, or LDL cholesterol.
The principal and senior authors of that analysis are our guests this time.
Links:
- Annals of Internal Medicine study (free abstract)
- Annals editorial (Annals subscription required)