Factors associated with seeking physician care by medicare beneficiaries who receive all their primary care from nurse practitioners

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Atrial Fibrillation 8%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 8%
• Cohort Studies 6%
• Comorbidity 7%
• Confidence Intervals 39%
• Continuity of Patient Care 10%
• Education 5%
• Elderly 12%
• Heart Failure 6%
• Hospital Emergency Service 7%
• Hospitalization 6%
• Logistic Models 12%
• Medicare 87%
• Myocardial Infarction 6%
• Neoplasms 3%
• Nurse Practitioners 100%
• Nurse's Role 11%
• Odds Ratio 42%
• Physicians 53%
• Pneumonia 7%
• Population 3%
• Primary Care Physicians 40%
• Primary Health Care 66%
• Retrospective Studies 6%
• Stroke 6%

Social Sciences

• agglomeration area 6%
• cancer 6%
• chronic illness 7%
• comorbidity 8%
• confidence 37%
• continuity 5%
• education 2%
• emergency room 9%
• heart attack 10%
• hospitalization 7%
• logistics 5%
• nurse 65%
• physician 32%
• physician's care 95%
• regression 4%
• shortage 6%
• stroke 8%