While it is known that patients with few primary care doctor's office visits are less likely ... prepaid, nonprofit health plan that coordinates care and coverage in Washington state.
Most screening tests ...
... GP.
These reforms, they conclude, if allowed to continue will mean that "patients will lose holistic care, doctors will lose job satisfaction and the NHS will lose effectiveness and inefficiency."
... nursing homes.
Although U.S. primary care doctors' use of electronic medical records increased ... action in 2009 to give Americans the health care system they deserve," said Commonwealth Fund President ...
... wasn't shared between doctors and nurses, or communication between primary care doctors and specialists was poor.
Respondents pointed out the need for a more cohesive care system. Nine of 10 ...
BOSTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Massachusetts lawmakers are trying to ease a chronic shortage of doctors with financial incentives and programs to attract primary care doctors.
... , a disabled woman on Medicare, trails her doctor into her office and confides that she doesn't have ... Tanyech Walford pulls out her billfold and hands her $3. It's money the doctor really doesn't have.
Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal. The findings are based ...
... U.S. needs 16,000 more primary care physicians just to meet the needs of currently ... insurance coverage, and everyone having access to a primary care doctor. Anything less than that will fail to provide ...
... way to obtain information regarding survivorship care issues instantaneously."
Penn researchers surveyed ... survivors – give low marks to their primary care doctors' knowledge of late effects of cancer ...
... a time when resources are tight, we are so confident in our findings that we are hiring more primary care doctors, physician assistants, and nurses, because we believe this is the best way to achieve ...
... reforms that: invest in training more primary care doctors; implement new payment models to support ... reforms that will once again make primary care medicine an attractive and viable career choice ...
... (average age 72); 477 received usual care, 474 participated in GRACE. Both the usual care ... meet with the patient's primary care doctor to come up with a health-care plan consistent with the patient's ...
... the medical home pilot. Each primary care doctor (family physician or general internist) ... centers.
"Patients fortunate enough to have health care centered on their needs and delivered by Group Health ...
... happy until he realized that I
wasn't a podiatrist. I had phoned to introduce myself as his new
primary care doctor. The social worker and I wanted to visit him at
home ...
The fear of swine flu is being compounded by new worries, this time among primary care doctors who say that they are already being swamped by calls.
