... for the increase. Colwill said this enrollment increase could result in more specialists, but little increase in primary care physicians if the incentive for becoming generalists is not examined soon.
... says. "The take-home point is that colonoscopies performed by trained and competent primary care physicians can be just as safe and effective as those performed by other endoscopists."
The U.S. ...
... Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia Health System and a lead investigator, now believes that primary care physicians can help fill the void left by insufficient ...
... 's Abramson Cancer Center. "Currently, however, lack of communication between oncologists and primary care physicians is felt by survivors to be a major limitation of our existing system, so treatment ...
... care physicians face limitations when evaluating patients for voice problems including hoarseness (dyphonia), ... authors discovered that among 271 primary care physicians, only a third (36.5%) routinely ...
... six months of life and the number of primary care physician visits in the 12 preceding months for ... beneficiaries may improve the quality of end-of-life-care while reducing time spent in the hospital ...
... to provide preventive dental services. Currently, physicians in more than 400 pediatric primary care offices in North Carolina (NC) have been trained to screen for tooth decay, so that ...
... . Since then, however, the salary disparities have grown and the shortage of primary care physicians—which includes those who specialize in family medicine, pediatrics or general internal medicine—has ...
... set of recommendations to assure that the supply of primary care physicians is sufficient to meet current and future ... of ACP's ideas are reflected in the Patient Access to Primary Care Act, H.R. 7192, ...
... coordinates care and coverage in Washington state.
Most screening tests are ordered by primary care physicians, so the investigators were not surprised to find that patients with very few primary ...
Primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada who volunteered to adopt the new capitation model for payment, ... both rural and urban practices.
Primary health care is facing serious concerns internationally ...
... test other new payment models to align incentives with the value of services provided by primary care physicians.
"We believe that a comprehensive and multi-faceted approach is needed to encourage ...
... one-fifth among them contemplates suicide. Two-thirds of these patients are treated by primary care physicians. Sadly, their depression is often inadequately treated due to the primary care physician ...
... drastically; as a result, the U.S. faces a severe shortage of primary care physicians," said Bodenheimer. "Already, patients are having a difficult time getting primary care appointments, resulting ...
... support workshops Received better health care, including needed screening tests, management of ... . medical students choose to specialize, and primary care physicians retire earlier than specialists do. ...
