Despite contentious debate over the new national health care reform law, there is an emerging consensus that strengthening primary care will improve health outcomes and …
Focuses on the significant features of primary care in medicine. Definition of primary care; Roles and functions of primary care and their measurement; Proportion of practitioners …
Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending provide …
Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending achieve …
ContextBoth comorbid conditions and functional measures predict mortality in older adults, but few prognostic indexes combine both classes of predictors. Combining easily obtained …
It has been 30 years since the Declaration of Alma Ata. During that time, primary care has been the central strategy for expanding health services in many low-and middle-income …
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in US social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the …
JP Kassirer, JB Wong, RI Kopelman - 1991 - philpapers.org
After a 50-page outline of the principles of clinical reasoning, over 60 actual cases are detailed that illustrate (and are keyed to) the principles, presenting case records, analysis …
Objective: We sought to test whether variations across regions in end-of-life (EOL) treatment intensity are associated with regional differences in patient preferences for EOL care …