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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2017 Background Sciatica has a substantial impact on patients, and is associated with high healthcare and societal costs. Although there is variation in the clinical management of sciatica, the current model of care usually involves an initial period of ‘wait
Nadine E. Foster +14 more
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Dissecting Medical Referral Mechanisms in Health Services: Role of Physician Professional Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Medical referrals between primary care physicians (PC) and specialist care (SC) physicians profoundly impact patient care regarding quality, satisfaction, and cost. This paper investigates the influence of professional networks among medical doctors on referring patients from PC to SC.
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The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: applicability in primary care
Pain, 2019 The International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11), proposes, for the first time, a coding system for chronic pain. This system contains 1 code for “chronic primary pain,” where chronic pain is the disease, and 6 codes for chronic ...
Blair H. Smith +8 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019 Background Assessing daily change in pain and related symptoms help in diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring response to treatment. However, such changes are infrequently assessed, and usually reviewed weeks or months after the start of treatment.
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PriMock57: A Dataset Of Primary Care Mock Consultations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) have made it possible to reliably produce automatic transcripts of clinician-patient conversations. However, access to clinical datasets is heavily restricted due to patient privacy, thus slowing down normal research practices.
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Setting standards for preventative services to reduce child health inequalities in Greater Manchester [PDF]
, 2007 Recent policy documents such as Every Child Matters and the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services have indicated a fundamental shift in ways of thinking about child health, emphasising the crucial role of ...
Baker, Deborah +2 more
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Overcoming Challenges to Teamwork in Patient-Centered Medical Homes: A Qualitative Study [PDF]
, 2014 There is emerging consensus that enhanced inter-professional teamwork is necessary for the effective and efficient delivery of primary care, but there is less practical information specific to primary care available to guide practices on how to better ...
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BMJ, 2014 Individual doctors matter, and pay for performance may reduce hospital admissions The United Kingdom has led the world in several national policy initiatives to improve the quality of primary care, notably by implementing both nationwide surveys of patient experience and the largest healthcare pay for performance scheme in the world—the Quality and ...
Guthrie, Bruce, Dreischulte, Tobias
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Xiehe Yixue Zazhi, 2023 Following the recent adjustments to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention and control policies, an increasing number of medical staffs, especially those in primary care facilities are confronted with rapid growth of COVID-19 patients.
Multi-disciplinary Expert Team for Primary Care COVID-19 Practice, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
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Using artificial intelligence to detect chest X-rays with no significant findings in a primary health care setting in Oulu, Finland [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Objectives: To assess the use of artificial intelligence-based software in ruling out chest X-ray cases, with no significant findings in a primary health care setting. Methods: In this retrospective study, a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) software was used to analyse 10 000 chest X-rays of Finnish primary health care patients. In
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