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Showing 1 to 20 of 991 for “"Physician"”.
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Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriot
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:20:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5904498.pdf: 22495831 bytes, checksum: c48ee408e0c1dcb22ae020aa92ff7dd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Metaphors in nurse-physician communication
This study addresses the weaknesses in the nurse-physician communication literature by preserving the cultural phenomena and coupling this context with empirical validation. Its purpose is to achieve a better understanding, through description and explanation, of the communication patterns between …
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Physician Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Massachusetts
… of a growing interest in entrepreneurship among physicians as well as claims of a paucity of entrepreneurial activity in healthcare more generally, there has been little systematic evidence to inform the extant, type, and drivers of entrepreneurship by physicians. Physician involvement in …
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Three essays on physician pricing
… focuses on three different aspects of physician pricing. The first is the use of the assumption in formal modeling that physicians have the same type of costs for different types of patients. The second aspect of physician pricing investigated here is physicians’ ability to change the …
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Changing From The Physician-Patient To The Physician-Consumer Relationship: Examining Consumer Involvement In Medical Interactions
… interaction between the consumer and physician. This study takes a general systems perspective in exploring patient involvement with the physician-consumer relationship by examining the objects, attributes, relationships, and the environment. Thompson (1986) states that involved …
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Moral Hazard and Hospital Physician Integration
Despite the importance of the hospital physician relationship, little is known about hospital physician integration. In this dissertation, I examine how integration solves moral hazard problems in a principal-agent relationship in the context of the hospital physician integration continuum. I build …
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Physician Behavior In Accountable Care Organizations
… contracting affects how providers, specifically physician groups and health systems, determine marginal treatment choice and set the level of care provided to patients. Utilizing the widespread adoption of Accountable Care Organization (ACO) contracts by both commercial payers and Medicare, …
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Learning to Ask Like a Physician
… and, as a result, fail to capture realistic physician information needs. We present Discharge Summary Clinical Questions (DiSCQ), a newly curated question dataset composed of 2,000+ questions paired with the snippets of text (triggers) that prompted each question. The questions are generated …
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Physician response to medicare fee regulations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Exploration of Physician Attitudes about Self-Care and Personal Mental Health: Possible Barriers to Physician Well Being
<p>The present study was designed to examine physicians’ mental health, attitudes, and behaviors toward self-care and the utilization of mental health services. As the medical field can be very demanding and exhausting, it is believed that many physicians suffer from mental illnesses such as …
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Improving Physician Behavior with an Obstetric Dashboard
… providers' episiotomy utilization rates using a physician dashboard. For our second project, heat pack application in the late first stage of labor was instituted. RESULTS: Following dashboard implementation, there was significant reduction in the institutional rate of episiotomy (9.0% …
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Marital Experience and Spirituality among Physician Couples
… and spirituality interact in the lives of physician couples. Physicians’ increasing openness to spiritual issues inherent in treating the ill and suffering (King, 2000; Thorsen, Harris & Oman, 2001), the growing number of women entering the medical profession and becoming physician and dual …
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A Multivariate Analysis of Physician Prescribing Behavior
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Essays on malpractice law and physician behavior
… various dimensions of malpractice law shape physician behavior and how this behavior, in turn, impacts health outcomes. In Chapter 1, I explore the association between regional variations in physician practices and the geographical scope of the standards of care to which physicians are held …
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Physician intervention in compliance with therapeutic diets
… to examine the premise that a stimulus to the physician in the form of a written reminder would aid the physician in influencing his patient in compliance with a therapeutic diet. Compliance outcome related to the physician-patient relationship and the quality and skills displayed by the …
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A descriptive analysis of the 1992 active-duty physician asset: with comparisons to the Kaiser-Permanente physician staff model data
… care. One area which impacts these factors is physician staffing levels. The problem for DoD is one of maintaining a cadre of active-duty physicians, which is generally based on wartime requirements, while providing peacetime medical care to over eight million beneficiaries. This thesis …
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The impact of patient-centered care on physician job satisfaction and patient satisfaction: the influence of physician and patient characteristics
… patient-centered care initiative (PCC) and physician job satisfaction and patient satisfaction by focusing on physician professional culture and patient culture. The research questions were drawn by the fact that PCC has widely been adopted in western hospitals and has recently been …
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Hospital Competition and Physician Prices (Economics, Health Care)
This study investigates the relationship between physicians and hospitals. Physicians are modeled as purchasing hospital affiliation. The affiliation fee is in the form of donated services, restrictions on physician behavior and other means by which the physician is made to bear hospital costs. The …
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Medical malpractice and physician discipline: Lessons from Indiana
… malpractice (“med mal”) claiming, and the physician licensing/disciplinary system. In the mid-1970s, Indiana adopted a comprehensive package of med mal reforms, including a medical review panel, a total damages cap, and a patient compensation fund (“PCF”). Indiana also reorganized its …
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