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Nurse practitioners and physicians similarly likely to inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients: Study
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Nurse practitioners and physicians similarly likely to inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients: Study

by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study of more than 73,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) suggest that both are similarly likely to inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients. According to the authors, this study adds to growing evidence indicating that when prescriptive authority is expanded to include NPs, these...