News tagged with primary care physician
Exploring group checkups for diabetes, Parkinson's
(AP) -- Wait a minute, Doc. You want me to share my appointment with 10 other patients?
May 02, 2011 |
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Residency match results encouraging for adults needing primary care
The increase in the number of U.S. medical students choosing internal medicine residencies in 2011 is a positive sign toward easing the primary care workforce shortage, according to the American College of Physicians (ACP), ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Doctors lax in monitoring potentially addicting drugs
Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs -- despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 03, 2011 |
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It's complicated: Despite the challenges, collaboration is key in kidney disease care
Most primary care physicians (PCPs) and kidney specialists favor collaborative care for a patient with progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), but their preferences on how and when to collaborate differ, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Massachusetts physician groups improving patient experience, study finds
Most Massachusetts physician groups are using results from a statewide patient survey to help improve patient experiences, but a significant number are not making use of the information or are making relatively limited efforts, ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Report details how hospitals can be risky places
(AP) -- Medicare's new chief called for more steps to improve patient safety Tuesday, in the wake of a government report that said one in seven hospitalized Medicare patients is harmed during their stay.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Hurdles ahead for health care reform primary care model, study shows
Provisions of new federal health care reforms will move the country toward a primary care medical home for patients, but the nation may not have enough primary care doctors to handle the workload, according to a study by ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Study clarifies needs of rural-dwelling elderly
A novel project set in a rural community near Rochester, N.Y., to screen elderly people for unmet needs showed that, indeed, there is a great opportunity to match older adults with professional assistance. This new model ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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California healthcare shoratge detailed in new report
When you get sick and exhaust all your home remedies and family's advice, chances are you go see a doctor. A good old-fashioned doctor who whips off his stethoscope to listen to your heart and lungs, who asks you to say "ahhhhh" ...
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Doctors' sense of mission, self-identity key factors in choice to work in underserved areas
Medical schools and clinics could boost the number of primary care physicians in medically underserved areas by selecting and encouraging students from these communities, who often exhibit a strong sense of responsibility ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Innovative Web-based tool helps doctors improve care
A Web-based tool that extracts information from the electronic medical record (EMR) helps primary care physicians improve care and manage their entire panel of patients. Those are the findings of two new Kaiser Permanente ...
Oct 02, 2010 |
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Characteristics of patient panels appear associated with quality ratings of primary care physicians
Patients panels (used to rate the quality of care of physicians) with greater proportions of underinsured, minority and non-English speaking patients were associated with lower physician quality rankings, according to a study ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Study finds more Americans bypassing their personal physician when immediate treatment required
Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Preventive cancer surgeries save women's lives
A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more likely to develop lethal breast or ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Hmong-American Women Far Less Likely to Get Pap Test
The Asian-American community of Hmong women in California carries a stunning burden of cervical cancer and resulting mortality four times as high as non-Hispanic white women in California do.
Aug 05, 2010 |
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