Becker's Healthcare October 24, 2023
Nurse practitioners are no more likely than physicians to prescribe inappropriately to older patients, a recent study found.
The study, published Oct. 24 in Annals of Internal Medicine, compared more than 23,000 nurse practitioners and 50,000 primary care physicians in 29 states where NPs had prescribing authority. They found between 2013 and 2019, the average rate of potentially inappropriate prescriptions was 1.7% for physicians and nurse practitioners.
Inappropriate prescribing was defined according to criteria...