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Physician employment status and practice patterns.

The Journal of family practice, 1998
Many physicians today are employed by another physician, group, hospital, HMO, or other organization. However, the differences in the characteristics, practice patterns, and patient outcomes of self-employed and employed physicians are not well understood.The practices of 108 community family physicians in northeast Ohio were assessed using a ...
G E, Kikano, M A, Goodwin, K C, Stange
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Patient Characteristics and Practice Patterns of Physicians Using Homeopathy

Archives of Family Medicine, 1998
The use of homeopathy is growing in the United States, but little is known about practice patterns of physicians using homeopathy and the patients who seek homeopathic care.Data for consecutive patient visits to 27 doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy using homeopathy in 1992 were collected and compared with the National Ambulatory Medical ...
J, Jacobs, E H, Chapman, D, Crothers
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Patient Preferences and Physician Practice Patterns Regarding Breast Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2012
There are multiple current strategies for breast radiotherapy (RT). The alignment of physician practice patterns with best evidence and patient preferences will enhance patient autonomy and improve cancer care. However, there is little information describing patient preferences for breast RT and physician practice patterns.Using a reliable and valid ...
David J, Hoopes, David, Kaziska, Patrick, Chapin, Daniel, Weed, Benjamin D, Smith, E Ronald, Hale, Peter A, Johnstone   +6 more
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Influencing physician practice patterns.

Topics in health care financing, 1994
Today, customers are holding hospitals accountable for improving clinical outcomes and cost containment in ways that require the cooperation and collaboration of physicians. This chapter examines four strategies for influencing physician practice patterns: financial risk sharing, utilization management, performance feedback, and continuous quality ...
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Focus on quality: Profiling physiciansʼ practice patterns

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1994
This article presents a physician practice profiling system developed using Medicare data to evaluate the quality of care provided by primary care physicians. We discuss four attributes to physicians' practice profiles that make them useful for quality improvement: flexibility, user involvement in developing profiles, explicit plans for evaluation, and
D W, Garnick, J, Fowles, A G, Lawthers, J P, Weiner, S T, Parente, R H, Palmer   +5 more
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Induced abortion. Physician training and practice patterns.

The Journal of reproductive medicine, 1999
To examine the relationship between training in induced abortion during residency and subsequent practice patterns in providing abortion services.An anonymous survey of all obstetrician-gynecologists with admitting privileges at a tertiary care hospital in New England was conducted.
M A, Shanahan, W P, Metheny, J, Star, J F, Peipert   +3 more
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Office visit patterns in physician group practices.

GHAA journal, 1987
In summary, this study provides evidence that with as few as five diagnosis it is possible to identify some physician group practices that consistently treat patients with more or fewer visits, on average. However, even among group practices that vary considerably in size, location, and organizational structure, there is little deviation from the norm ...
D W, Garnick, H S, Luft, S S, Hunt
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The modification of physician practice patterns.

Clinical performance and quality health care, 1998
While physicians are directly responsible for only a small proportion of healthcare expenditures, their decisions influence the majority of medical costs. Because practice variations among physicians have been demonstrated abundantly, strategies to modify practice patterns have evolved.
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Physician Practice Patterns Under Hospital Rate-Setting Programs

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
Earlier studies of hospital rate-setting programs have focused primarily on their ability to contain the growth in hospital utilization and expenditures. While most analysts recognize the central role physicians play in influencing health care utilization and expenditures, regulatory programs have been directed primarily at the hospital.
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Obesity management: physician practice patterns and patient preference.

The Diabetes educator, 2006
The purpose of this study was to assess inner-city clinic patient attitudes about weight loss counseling and to assess practice behaviors of primary care physicians in residency training.This is a cross-sectional survey of consecutive patients attending an outpatient internal medicine resident continuity clinic in the Bronx, New York.
Nichola J, Davis, Ada, Emerenini, Judith, Wylie-Rosett   +2 more
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