Nurse Practitioner Activities in Ontario Family Health Teams: Comparing Three Different Data Sources.
Background: Despite the increase in nurse practitioners (NPs) working in primary healthcare, little standardized data are available to understand NP activities at the system level. The Nurse Practitioner Access Reporting system (NPAR), a pilot project underway at 40 family health teams in Ontario, i...
| Publicado en: | Nursing Leadership (1910-622X) Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 67 - 80 |
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Longwoods Publishing
2020
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