From left to right: Miguel Paniagua, ACP VP for Medical Education; Congressman Dwight Evans; Darilyn V. Moyer, ACP EVP/CEO; Allyson Schwartz, Senior Advisor, FT
Representative Dwight Evans took part in a roundtable discussion Monday with healthcare experts and community leaders focused on solutions to lower obesity rates in the city.
<p>A 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 new prescribers do not perform worse than physicians. The study is published in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine.</em></p>