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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"physician services"”.
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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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An analysis of factors affecting the increased usage of emergency rooms for primary care
… selected access variables which influence use of physician services or emergency rooms. The selection of variables is based on a model of facility use which has been derived from the literature on medical care. The results from the analysis concluded that socio-demographic characteristics are both …
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Exploring the Role of Pharmacists in Management of Hypertension in a Safety Net Clinic
… pharmacist counseling versus those receiving physician services only. Preliminary findings demonstrated that when compared to treatment as usual, those receiving supplemental pharmacist services had better hypertension control with significant reductions in both systolic and diastolic levels. …
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Concentration and dispersion of primary care physicians and implications for access to care in Cook County, Illinois: 2000-2008
… corporatization of health care are changing physician decisions about how and where to provide medical care. Physicians are increasingly drawn to medical office complexes, group practices, and hospital-owned practices, resulting in a shifting landscape of physician services. The goal of this …
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Relationship of psychological well-being and activities of daily living in older adults following hospitalization: A secondary analysis
… to determine eligibility for long-term care services, to determine benefits, and to establish new social policies, as well as to predict admission to a nursing home, use of paid home care, use of hospital and physician services, living arrangements, insurance coverage, and mortality. Patients …
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Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children
This research investigated physician and emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children …
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Attributable Healthcare Costs of Diabetes Complications in Alberta Adults: A Longitudinal Retrospective Cohort Analysis
… healthcare costs, including hospitalizations, physician services, and ambulatory care, were modelled using generalized linear mixed models with a Tweedie distribution and log link. Complications examined included myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, blindness, …
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Medical Underservice and Cancer Mortality Among Farmers in Illinois
… delivery has been the relative unavailability of physician services in rural areas. Although a nearly five-fold difference in physician to population ratio exists between urban and rural areas, little is known regarding the impact of this difference on health status. This epidemiologic study …
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between physical activity and health services utilization in community-dwelling older adults
… adults and the role of PA in reducing health services utilization in this population is examined via two studies. Study 1: The purpose of Study 1 was to examine relationships between LTPA and health services utilization in a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling adults aged 50 …
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Factors contributing to clinical output among general practitioners and family physicians
… to quantify the proportion of variance in physician output explained by this group of variables.Background. The question is of vital importance to academics, health professionals, and citizens. The physician population is aging and feminizing while physicians are softening their opposition …
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A survey of physicians concerning utilization of the physician assistant in Indiana
… concern over the serious deficit in the primary physician services. With the high cost of health care consistently rising, increased demands are being made for better health care practices. The problems now facing the medical profession emphasize the lack of supply, distribution, organization, …