Medical Care: Role of Geography and Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice in Efforts to Expand Primary Care System Capacity: Health Reform and the Primary Care Workforce

Authors: Graves, John A. PhD; Mishra, Pranita MPP; Dittus, Robert S. MD, MPH; Parikh, Ravi MD, MPH; Perloff, Jennifer PhD; Buerhaus, Peter I. PhD, RN, FAAN​

Objective: We investigated whether geographic accessibility to primary care clinicians (PCCs) differed across urban and rural areas and across states with more or less restrictive scope-of-practice laws.

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