Top Abstract Purchase Related
Home
>
Node
>
Subnode

Nurses to be preferred over physicians in elderly care?

Poot, A.J.

Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 162: D2091

2018

ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162
PMID: 29424328
Document Number: 695232
A thorough systematic literature review comparing care for the elderly provided by physicians and nurses with that provided by physicians alone finds a modest advantage for the first. The conclusion is that 'Physician substitution in healthcare for the aging population may achieve at least as good patient outcomes and process of care outcomes compared with care provided by physicians'. On closer inspection, the selected studies compare multidisciplinary care programmes including nursing staff with monodisciplinary physician care. The modest advantage found for the multidisciplinary programmes can be seen as support for the prevailing consensus that this is the way to go, but the conclusion that this is support for the substitution of physicians lacks evidence. Focus on cost-effectiveness and/or the wish to accentuate the important role of highly trained nursing experts in modern care for older people may have affected the interpretation of the data.

Document emailed within 1 workday
Secure & encrypted payments

Salling, A.L. 1976: Cooperation between home nurses and physicians in primary health care: district nurses and practicing physicians have a common circle of patients Sygeplejersken 76(9): 14-15; 18
Von Horst, E. 1974: Education in medical emergency care for physicians and nurses: great need for nurses in work for underdeveloped countries Sygeplejersken 74(41): 14-16
Schell, W. 1997: Terminal care is obligatory for physicians and nurses Kinderkrankenschwester: Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege 16(9): 394-396
Burda, D. 1990: Physicians outscore nurses in care survey Modern Healthcare 20(49): 10
Templeton, D.J.; Williams, A.; Healey, L.; Odell, M.; Wells, D. 2010: Male forensic physicians have an important role in sexual assault care. 'A response to "Chowdhury-Hawkins et al. Preferred choice of gender of staff providing care to victims of sexual assault in Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs)" [J. Forensic Legal Med. 15 (2008) 363-367]' Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 17(1): 50-52
Schiavo, C.; Osinski, M.H.; Houchins, G. 2001: Finding answers to the shortage of nurses, physicians in renal care Nephrology News and Issues 15(9): 39-44
Stark, J.; Thape, J. 1993: Decision making in neonatal intensive care: a collaboration of parents, physicians, and nurses Awhonn's Clinical Issues in Perinatal and Women's Health Nursing 4(4): 589-595
Thomasson, J. 1982: Continued education proceeds--despite physicians' boycott. Health care instructors give assistance to active nurses Vardfacket 6(5): 10-12
Lyons, T.F.; Payne, B.C. 1974: Quality of physicians' office-care performance. Different for elderly than for younger adults? JAMA 229(12): 1621-1622
Barretto, A.C.; Wajngarten, M.; Gebara, O.C.; do Serro Azul, J.B.; Pierri, H.; Nussbacher, A.; Pivotto, L.; Bellotti, G.; Pileggi, F. 1996: Risk factors in elderly patients selected by primary care physicians for hypolipemic treatment Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 67(2): 93-98
Dean, T.; Borkan, E.; Pless, I.B. 1971: Attitudes of rural physicians toward the medical care of migrant farm workers, crippled children and the elderly American Journal of Public Health 61(11): 2195-2200
Boullé, C.; Kouanfack, C.; Laborde-Balen, G.èl.; Carrieri, M.P.; Dontsop, M.; Boyer, S.; Aghokeng, A.F.; Spire, B.; Koulla-Shiro, S.; Delaporte, E.; Laurent, C.; Biwolé-Sida, M.; Kouanfack, C.; Koulla-Shiro, S.; Bourgeois, A.; Delaporte, E.; Laurent, C.; Peeters, M.; Laborde-Balen, G.; Dontsop, M.; Kazé, S.; Mben, J.-M.; Aghokeng, A.; Edoul, M.G.; Mpoudi-Ngolé, E.; Tongo, M.; Boyer, S.; Carrieri, M.P.; Marcellin, P.; Moatti, J.-P.; Spire, B.; Abé, C.; Abega, S.-C.; Bonono, C.-R.; Mimcheu, H.; Ngo Yebga, S.; Paul Bile, C.; Abada, S.; Abanda, T.; Baga, J.; Bilobi Fouda, P.; Etong Mve, P.; Fetse Tama, G.; Kemo, H.; Ongodo, A.; Tadewa, V.; Voundi, H.D.; Ambani, A.; Atangana, M.; Biaback, J.-C.; Kennedy, M.; Kibedou, H.; Kounga, F.; Maguip 2013: Task shifting HIV care in rural district hospitals in Cameroon: evidence of comparable antiretroviral treatment-related outcomes between nurses and physicians in the Stratall ANRS/ESTHER trial Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 62(5): 569-576
Runyan, J.W. 1970: Physicians' assistants: nurses as physicians JAMA 213(6): 1037
Almind, G.; Holstein, B.E.; Larsen, B.S. 1986: Advice about the types of residence for elderly sick patients. a study of the forms of residence preferred by 470 pensioners Ugeskrift for Laeger 148(21): 1297-1299
Doroszkiewicz, H.; Bień, B. 2007: Quality of teamwork of family doctors and community nurses in primary care for the elderly in two organizational settings--opinions of the family doctors Advances in Medical Sciences 52(Suppl 1): 85-88
De Jonge, G.A.; Engelberts, A.C. 1997: Preferred position for infants; big appeal to health care Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 141(27): 1353-1354
Crampton, R.S.; Michaelson, S.P.; Wynbeek, A.; Miles, J.R.; Gascho, J.A.; Stillerman, R.; Aldrich, R.F. 1974: Reduction of pre-hospital, ambulance, and hospital coronary death by the pre-hospital emergency cardiac care system: a rationale for training emergency medical technicians, nurses, and physicians Heart and Lung: the Journal of Critical Care 3(5): 742-747
Maloney, J.P.; Bartz, C. 1983: Stress-tolerant people: intensive care nurses compared with non-intensive care nurses Heart and Lung: the Journal of Critical Care 12(4): 389-394
Al-Ma'aitah, R.; Cameron, S.; Armstrong-Stassen, M.; Horsburgh, M.E. 1996: The effect of unit type and gender on Jordanian nurses' job satisfaction: a comparison of operating room, medical-surgical, and critical care nurses Seminars in Perioperative Nursing 5(4): 222-229
Eskeland, M.; Knutsen, S.F.; Forsdahl, A. 1997: Shortage of physicians, leave of absence because of pregnancy and child care. a survey of physicians 1993 Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening: Tidsskrift for Praktisk Medicin Ny Raekke 117(4): 520-523