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- •Both NPs and physician serve a USC role for the population. Both of them serve a supplemental role to each other.
- •Regardless of their roles, patients reported receiving more therapeutic or preventive care from NPs but more diagnostic care and biomedical treatments from physicians in the U.S. primary care settings.
- •Patients reported having similar diagnoses when seen by NPs and physicians serving in a USC role, but different diagnoses when NPs and physicians served in supplemental roles.
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