BACKGROUND & AIMS We evaluated the quality and safety of colonoscopies performed by nurse and physician endoscopy trainees as well as the cost differences. METHODS We performed a study of 7 nurse and 8 physician (gastroenterology fellows) endoscopy trainees at 2 medical centers in the Netherlands from September 2008 through April 2012. At the beginning of the study, the subjects had no experi...

INTRODUCTION Health education provided to patients can reduce mortality and morbidity of chronic disease. Although some studies describe the provision of health education by physicians, few studies have examined how physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners differ in the provision of health education. The objective of our study was to evaluate the rate of health education provis...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Nurse-Physician Collaboration Scale. BACKGROUND The importance of cooperation between healthcare professionals is widely acknowledged in Europe and the United States of America, but there have been no specific studies of interactions between healthcare professionals or of nurse-physician coo...

OBJECTIVE To report the findings of a knowledge survey of nurse and physician immunization providers. DESIGN Cross-sectional postal survey assessing demographic characteristics and vaccine knowledge. SETTING British Columbia (BC). PARTICIPANTS Nurse and physician immunization providers in BC. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Knowledge of vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccines in general, and vacci...

The physician’s communication style when disclosing bad news about cancer can reportedly affect the patient’s psychological adjustment. 2 Little is known about changes in anxiety and depression during the initial period of lung cancer diagnosis disclosure. The primary goal of this study was to analyse the impact of a multi-professional interview for diagnosis disclosure (MIDD) on anxiety and de...

The physician’s communication style when disclosing bad news about cancer can reportedly affect the patient’s psychological adjustment. 2 Little is known about changes in anxiety and depression during the initial period of lung cancer diagnosis disclosure. The primary goal of this study was to analyse the impact of a multi-professional interview for diagnosis disclosure (MIDD) on anxiety and de...

BACKGROUND To examine nurse-physician inter-observer agreement on triage categorization and analyze their differences for future reference. METHODS A retrospective observational study was performed. Patients entering a 3500-bed medical center emergency department (ED) from July 1 to 31, 1998 were randomly selected. We compared triage assignments made by nurses and 2 ED physicians, and examine...

We describe VHA's information technology (IT) implementation from the providers' perspective, and identify factors influencing its effective implementation to improve care. We surveyed a stratified random national sample of 4227 clinicians from three VHA primary care provider groups: 1) physicians; 2) nurse practitioners, physician assistants; and 3) nurses. Facility-level IT support availabili...