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Printed Educational Materials for Primary Care Physicians
In primary care settings, primary care physicians (PCPs) commonly have multiple brief visits, often with complex patients and have little time to review the multitude of clinical evidence available that may be relevant to their patients’ needs. This dissertation examines printed educational …
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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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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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Measuring Accessibility to Primary Care Physicians in the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area
<p>The growing concern for the shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs) prompted a government legislation to designate areas where shortage in the delivery of primary care services occurs. The implemented systems (e.g., HPSA, MUA, and MUP) analyze utilization of health services within confined …
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Primary care physicians' perspectives on the Ontario Drug Benefit Program (ODB).
… with Medline, PubMed, Econlit and Ovid. Ten physicians working in a Durham region primary care clinic in Ontario were interviewed to determine their views on the ODB program. An iterative approach was used to analyze the data and resulted in the identification of several different themes …
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Evaluation of the competence and attitudes of primary care physicians towards information technology
The aim of this project was to produce some principles that would assist software developers (SD's) in the design of software for South African general medical practitioners (GP's). The author wanted to give SD's a cognitive model of general medical practice in the hope that this will improve the …
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Anabolic-androgenic steroids : knowledge, attitudes, ethical dilemmas and review for primary care physicians
Includes bibliographical references.
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Factors affecting the distribution of primary care physicians in rural counties of Virginia: 1970-1990
… the factors affecting the distribution of primary care physicians in rural counties of Virginia. Consistent predictors of proportions of physicians to the population were identified: golf holes per capita and the ratio of hospital beds to population were the most consistent predictors. Per …
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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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Principal-agent, risk, and market structure effects on health maintenance organization choice of payment method for primary care physicians
… (salary, fee-for-service, and capitation) for primary care physicians. First, a theoretical model is constructed to analyze physician preferences for fee-for-service versus capitation based on payment risk characteristics. The analysis shows that capitation can be less risky than …
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Assessment of practitioner intervention in physical activity
… is a serious epidemic that affects one’s health. Primary care physicians can play a key role in influencing and changing people’s behaviors. The objective of this study was to assess primary care physicians’ role in physical activity counseling and what if any guidelines they use. One hundred and …
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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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Care and Outcomes for Older Adults with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
… to optimal conservative (non-dialysis) care for older adults with kidney failure managed by primary care physicians. We conducted three studies: a population-based retrospective cohort study using administrative and laboratory data to compare survival outcomes between dialysis and …
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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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Reducing Physician Burnout and Costs in Outpatient Healthcare Settings via Advanced Analytics
National studies show that US primary care physicians are at high risk of burnout. Burnout has severe consequences for physicians, patients, and the healthcare system itself, which makes it one of the top priorities to be addressed by healthcare leaders today. In parallel, electronic health record …
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Understanding the Primary Health Care Needs and Current Care Guidelines for Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment: a Scoping Review and Validation Study
… guidelines to generate an understanding of the primary health care needs of women following treatment for breast cancer. Methods: Based on an extensive scoping review of the literature, research findings regarding the complications of breast cancer treatments and corresponding primary care …
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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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