Background At times, clinical case complexity and different types of uncertainty present
challenges to less experienced clinicians or the naive application of clinical guidelines …

Background Care management in primary care can be effective in helping patients with
chronic disease improve their health status. Primary care practices, however, are often …

Background Handoff education is both formal and informal and varies widely across medical
school and residency training programs. Despite many efforts to improve clinical handoffs …

Background Poor communication during end-of-shift transfers of care (handoffs) is
associated with safety risks and patient harm. Despite the common perception that handoffs …

Background Poor-quality handoffs have been associated with serious patient
consequences. Researchers and educators have answered the call with efforts to increase …

PURPOSE We wanted to describe the cognitive strategies used by family physicians when
structuring the decision-making tasks of an outpatient visit. METHODS This qualitative study …

Background: At times, clinical case complexity and different types of uncertainty present
challenges to less experienced clinicians or the naive application of clinical guidelines …

Existing research indicates much of the information experts possess is highly automated and
thus not available when they attempt to describe their own approach to solving problems to …

1. First Contact Access-The degree to which patients seek advice and care first at the
practice of the personal physician, except for medical catastrophes 2. Patient-focused Care …

BACKGROUND: Poor communication during end-of-shift transfers of care (handoffs) is
associated with safety risks and patient harm. Despite the common perception that handoffs …