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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Primary Care Physician"”.
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Texas primary care and the Affordable Care Act : implications for the primary care physician workforce
Primary care physicians are the first point of contact for patients entering the formal health care system. A shortage of primary care physicians in the United States has left approximately 60 million people without adequate access to a physician, resulting in lowered health care outcomes and …
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Feasibility and acceptability of a pediatric primary care physician training for anxiety screening and psychoeducation
<p>Anxiety is one of the most prevalent psychological conditions in the pediatric population with significant impacts that often extend into adulthood. Pediatricians are in a unique position to screen and briefly intervene to facilitate early treatment and prevent long-term sequelae, but they often …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… purpose of this dissertation was to: (a) uncover primary care physician goals, plans, and action when correcting patient-held health misinformation and (b) experimentally test corrective influence messages for their effectiveness from the patient’s perspective. Two studies addressed these two …
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Overuse of 3 Common Tests in the Elderly: Primary Care Physician (PCP) Variation, Associated Physician Characteristics, and Correlation of Overuse of Tests Within Physicians
… has been done examining this problem at the physician level. This is important as physicians are the ones who are ordering the tests. While other levels may affect overtesting, physician factors, such as age, level of training, and personal beliefs, have been associated with overtesting. …
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Concentration and dispersion of primary care physicians and implications for access to care in Cook County, Illinois: 2000-2008
The health care system in the United States has experienced drastic changes in the recent past. Continuously growing pressures to control health care costs and the increasing corporatization of health care are changing physician decisions about how and where to provide medical care. Physicians are …
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MALE PATIENT EXPERIENCE RECEIVING PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV THROUGH PRIMARY CARE
… prevention intervention through their primary care physician, in order to assess access, engagement, effectiveness, and overall satisfaction. Methods: Data was collected through semi-structured, qualitative, electronic, telephone, and face-to-face interviews. Participants were adult …
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Assessment of problem-solving therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and an SSRI in the treatment of a single subject presenting with major depressive disorder and dysthymia
… voluntarily following a referral made by her primary care physician. This study was conducted in a community-based agency. A diagnosis of depression and dysthymia was reached through an initial intake interview and use of the DSM-IV. Best practice methodology was determined through an …
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Barriers to Lesbian Health Care
The primary purpose of this research was to examine a sample of sixteen lesbian women regarding the barriers to lesbian health-care. From this information several interpretive findings regarding lesbian health-care are made. Data were gathered via indepth interviews with each individual lesbian. …
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Investigating Health Inequality in Primary Care Spatial Accessibility Among Races and Ethnicities in King County Using a Geospatial Approach
Distance to healthcare providers is a significant barrier to health care access in the U.S. Healthcare utilization and disease burden have been found to increase as the distance between patients and primary care physicians increase. Although spatial accessibility to primary care resources has been …
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Automated auscultation : using acoustic features to diagnose mitral valve prolapse
During annual physical examinations, a primary-care physician listens to the heart using a stethoscope to assess the condition of the heart muscle and valves. This process, termed cardiac auscultation, is the primary means of diagnosing cardiac disorders, the most common of which is Mitral Valve …
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MIT Automated Auscultation System
At every annual exam, the primary care physician uses a stethoscope to listen for cardiac abnormalities. This approach is non-invasive, inexpensive, and fast. It is also highly unreliable. Over 80% of the people referred to cardiologists as suffering from the most commonly diagnosed condition, …
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Managing Behavioral Hazard: Value-Based Insurance Design and Inertia
… be used as a mechanism for more efficient health care decisions. While value-based insurance design (VBID) aligns cost-sharing with clinical value, whether consumers reduce their medical expenditures is unclear. I study the impact of a new value-based insurance design which decreased copays for …
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Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences Treating Patients with Behavioral Health Needs
<p>The delivery of behavioral health care in primary care shapes the patient-physician relationship, which is a core area of focus for examining patient outcomes. Though early research demonstrates the benefit of integrating physical and behavioral healthcare to the patient experience and health …
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The need for physician referral of low-income, chronic disease patients to free community nutrition education programs
… prevention of chronic diseases. Despite this, primary-care physicians often do not provide adequate dietary counseling or appropriate nutrition referrals to this patient population. Two surveys were conducted in Southwest and the western part of Central Virginia, one with 209 family …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
… outcomes and contribute to substantial healthcare costs. Because many readmissions are considered preventable, reducing them has become a national priority in the United States, with Medicare penalizing hospitals whose readmission rates exceed benchmarks. This research examines factors …
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Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing, Dispensing and Susceptibility Testing in a Primary Care Spinal Cord Injury Cohort
… prescribing in the SCI population, especially in primary care. The objectives of this thesis in a cohort of individuals with SCI rostered to a primary care physician (PCP) are to: 1) examine primary care antibiotic prescribing patterns; 2) determine patterns of urine culture susceptibility testing …
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Family medicine patients and mental health referrals: implications for primary care physicians
… compliance by family medicine patients if their Primary Care Physician (PCP) referred them to mental health treatment. Participants were 116 adults who were at the Family Medicine Center (FMC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, for medical appointments. Participants completed a questionnaire which …
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Looking Back on Creating a COVID Telemedicine
… and symptoms, CDC guidelines for isolation, and primary care physician referral information. COVID-19 patients discharged from the Emergency Department and inpatient services were identified and assigned to student callers. All patients were discussed with an attending physician, who was …
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The Association between Depression, Anxiety and Clinical Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
… electronic medical record (EMR) data from a primary care physician (PCP) group practice was conducted to identify patients newly diagnosed with T2DM with at least 6 months pre-diagnosis and 12 months post-diagnosis of EMR data using International Classification of Disease 9th edition Clinical …
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