Care coordination improves special needs therapy.(Practice Trends)

Pediatric News;  September 1, 2007 ;     354 words ...TORONTO -- A designated care coordinator can significantly improve...which are best directed through the primary care setting, said Ms. Krauthoefer, case...reimbursed, making it difficult for primary care physicians alone to provide medical homes for this population. Care ...

Calif. pediatricians seek solutions to primary care crisis: providing a...

Pediatric News;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the viability of primary care that ranged from...increasing funding for primary care mentorship programs...declining status of primary care will hurt all physicians...interested in doing primary care, Dr. Hay said. If primary care went away, ...

American College of Physicians Enthusiastically Supports Preserving...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2008 ;     617 words ......Patient Access to Primary Care Act (H.R. 7192...growing shortage of primary care physicians. "The nation's primary care physicians groups...shortfall in access to primary care services in a comprehensive...crisis in access to primary care and that ...

NHS announces crucial investment in new research; GBP3.5m awards boost for...

M2 Presswire;  October 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ......new research; GBP3.5m awards boost for primary care development (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Development, Sir John Pattison. The National Primary Care Award Scheme funds important new research...high quality patient care in crucial primary care services. The scheme allows ...

TransforMED and Phytel Team to Improve Care Coordination for Primary Care...

Health & Beauty Close-Up;  August 22, 2008 ;     488 words ......Team to Improve Care Coordination for Primary Care Practices(C)2008...point of patient care coordination across all specialties...services to primary care physicians and health...relationship-centered values of primary care with new technologies...

The crisis of primary care physicians

The Boston Globe;  May 29, 2008 ;     667 words ......Primary care is in crisis. Current primary care doctors are quitting, and medical students are pursuing other specialties. Primary care has lost its attractiveness as a profession...compensation and plummeting job satisfaction. Primary care physicians are in short ...

Literature Review Documents Critical Importance of Primary Care as Part of...

Targeted News Service;  November 19, 2008 ;     627 words ......A white paper, How is a Shortage of Primary Care Physicians Affecting the Quality and...Physicians (ACP) documents the value of primary care by reviewing 20 years of research. An...to support the critical importance of primary care in providing patients with better outcomes...

The effectiveness of a Care Coordination Home Telehealth program for...

American Journal of Managed Care;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Veterans Affairs (VA) Care Coordination Home Telehealth...coordinator--initiated primary care clinic visits...patient-centered care coordination perspective, which...system resources. Care coordination aims to unify care...

EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRIMARY CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE.

Health and Social Work;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......designed to enhance the care of older people provided by primary care physicians in nine...collaborators with primary care physicians as contemporary...holistic. Keywords aging care coordination case management interdisciplinary...physicians Recently primary care ...

7 ways to save primary care.(Practice Management)

Physician Executive;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......accurate history and physical done by a primary care physician can reduce the waste and...main entry point to the system were a primary care physician, the chaos of choices facing...people. Studies have shown that where primary care doctors are a higher percentage of...the current ...

Primary Care Psychology.

Families, Systems & Health;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Primary Care Psychology by Robert G. Frank, Susan...pp. DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.22.2.240 Primary Care Psychology is a welcome addition to...between mental health practitioners and primary care health providers. Health care has divided...

Few people in the United States can identify primary care...

American Family Physician;  May 15, 2004 ;     540 words ......Institute of Medicine (IOM) defined primary care, only one third of the American public...were able to accurately distinguish primary care physicians from medical or surgical...discrimination compromises the goal of achieving primary care for all and merits immediate attention...

Primary Care Professionals: Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  March 1, 2008 ;     485 words ......HRSA) and organizations representing primary care professionals. GAO also reviewed relevant...organizations. In recent years, the supply of primary care professionals increased, with the...faster than physicians. The numbers of primary care professionals in training ...

MEDICAID DEVELOPS PRIMARY CARE STANDARDS FOR CLINICIANS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Health today announced that all primary care clinicians and programs participating...Department has drafted these primary care standards to provide guidance...Department's expectations of primary care clinicians and programs that...

Primary care physicians and triage of skin lesions.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  January 1, 1997 ;     658 words ...Primary care physicians and dermatologists share...appropriate treatment of skin lesions. The primary care provider is being asked to assume a...associates compared the abilities of primary care physicians to those of dermatologists...