Nurse practitioner-led care for stable patients within a chronic chest diseaseclinic is safe and as effective as doctor-led care.
There was significant additional patient satisfaction with some aspects of nurse practitioner-led care and better patient compliance with antibiotic therapy.
There was significant additional resource use related to admissions and antibiotic prescriptions during nurse practitioner-led care. However, this mayhave been a learning curve effect, as the difference was substantially greater in the first year.