Family Practice: A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family.Physician's Practice Patterns: Patterns of practice related to diagnosis and treatment as especially influenced by cost of the service requested and provided.Ontario: A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)Internship and Residency: Programs of training in medicine and medical specialties offered by hospitals for graduates of medicine to meet the requirements established by accrediting authorities.Practice Management, Medical: The organization and operation of the business aspects of a physician's practice.Physicians, Family: Those physicians who have completed the education requirements specified by the American Academy of Family Physicians.Practice Guidelines as Topic: Directions or principles presenting current or future rules of policy for assisting health care practitioners in patient care decisions regarding diagnosis, therapy, or related clinical circumstances. The guidelines may be developed by government agencies at any level, institutions, professional societies, governing boards, or by the convening of expert panels. The guidelines form a basis for the evaluation of all aspects of health care and delivery.Professional Practice: The use of one's knowledge in a particular profession. It includes, in the case of the field of biomedicine, professional activities related to health care and the actual performance of the duties related to the provision of health care.Primary Health Care: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)Attitude of Health Personnel: Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Physician-Patient Relations: The interactions between physician and patient.Newfoundland and Labrador: Province of Canada consisting of the island of Newfoundland and an area of Labrador. Its capital is St. John's.Suburban Health Services: Health services, public or private, in suburban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice: Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).Private Practice: Practice of a health profession by an individual, offering services on a person-to-person basis, as opposed to group or partnership practice.Professional Practice Location: Geographic area in which a professional person practices; includes primarily physicians and dentists.General Practice: Patient-based medical care provided across age and gender or specialty boundaries.Physician's Role: The expected function of a member of the medical profession.Obstetrics: A medical-surgical specialty concerned with management and care of women during pregnancy, parturition, and the puerperium.Freedom: The rights of individuals to act and make decisions without external constraints.Clinical Competence: The capability to perform acceptably those duties directly related to patient care.Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs: Programs usually offered in hospital schools of nursing leading to a registered nurse diploma (RN). Graduates are eligible for state examination for licensure as RN (Registered Nurse).Certification: Compliance with a set of standards defined by non-governmental organizations. Certification is applied for by individuals on a voluntary basis and represents a professional status when achieved, e.g., certification for a medical specialty.Office Management: Planning, organizing, and administering activities in an office.Canada: The largest country in North America, comprising 10 provinces and three territories. Its capital is Ottawa.Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Netherlands: Country located in EUROPE. It is bordered by the NORTH SEA, BELGIUM, and GERMANY. Constituent areas are Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, formerly included in the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES.Specialization: An occupation limited in scope to a subsection of a broader field.Education, Medical, Graduate: Educational programs for medical graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic medical sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced medical degree.Office Nursing: Nursing practice limited to an office setting.Data Collection: Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.Office Visits: Visits made by patients to health service providers' offices for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.Nova Scotia: A province of eastern Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces with NEW BRUNSWICK; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; and sometimes NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Its capital is Halifax. The territory was granted in 1621 by James I to the Scotsman Sir William Alexander and was called Nova Scotia, the Latin for New Scotland. The territory had earlier belonged to the French, under the name of Acadia. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p871 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p384)Microcomputers: Small computers using LSI (large-scale integration) microprocessor chips as the CPU (central processing unit) and semiconductor memories for compact, inexpensive storage of program instructions and data. They are smaller and less expensive than minicomputers and are usually built into a dedicated system where they are optimized for a particular application. "Microprocessor" may refer to just the CPU or the entire microcomputer.Referral and Consultation: The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.United StatesSlovenia: Created 7 April 1992 as a result of the division of Yugoslavia.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Education, Medical: Use for general articles concerning medical education.Institutional Practice: Professional practice as an employee or contractee of a health care institution.Physician Incentive Plans: Compensatory plans designed to motivate physicians in relation to patient referral, physician recruitment, and efficient use of the health facility.Guideline Adherence: Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.Quality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Medicine: The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.Great BritainRural Health Services: Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Education, Medical, Continuing: Educational programs designed to inform physicians of recent advances in their field.Medical Records: Recording of pertinent information concerning patient's illness or illnesses.Community Medicine: A branch of medicine concerned with the total health of the individual within the home environment and in the community, and with the application of comprehensive care to the prevention and treatment of illness in the entire community.British Columbia: A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)Practice (Psychology): Performance of an act one or more times, with a view to its fixation or improvement; any performance of an act or behavior that leads to learning.Curriculum: A course of study offered by an educational institution.Professional Competence: The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality.Qualitative Research: Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)Career Choice: Selection of a type of occupation or profession.Comprehensive Health Care: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.Physicians: Individuals licensed to practice medicine.Continuity of Patient Care: Health care provided on a continuing basis from the initial contact, following the patient through all phases of medical care.Evidence-Based Medicine: An approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care. It requires the judicious integration of best research evidence with the patient's values to make decisions about medical care. This method is to help physicians make proper diagnosis, devise best testing plan, choose best treatment and methods of disease prevention, as well as develop guidelines for large groups of patients with the same disease. (from JAMA 296 (9), 2006)Nurse Practitioners: Nurses who are specially trained to assume an expanded role in providing medical care under the supervision of a physician.Focus Groups: A method of data collection and a QUALITATIVE RESEARCH tool in which a small group of individuals are brought together and allowed to interact in a discussion of their opinions about topics, issues, or questions.Family Nursing: The provision of care involving the nursing process, to families and family members in health and illness situations. From Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. 6th ed.Drug Prescriptions: Directions written for the obtaining and use of DRUGS.Internal Medicine: A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the internal organ systems of adults.Urban Health Services: Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Appointments and Schedules: The different methods of scheduling patient visits, appointment systems, individual or group appointments, waiting times, waiting lists for hospitals, walk-in clinics, etc.EnglandModels, Educational: Theoretical models which propose methods of learning or teaching as a basis or adjunct to changes in attitude or behavior. These educational interventions are usually applied in the fields of health and patient education but are not restricted to patient care.Diagnosis: The determination of the nature of a disease or condition, or the distinguishing of one disease or condition from another. Assessment may be made through physical examination, laboratory tests, or the likes. Computerized programs may be used to enhance the decision-making process.Salaries and Fringe Benefits: The remuneration paid or benefits granted to an employee.Evidence-Based Practice: A way of providing health care that is guided by a thoughtful integration of the best available scientific knowledge with clinical expertise. This approach allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome for future improvement.Fees, Medical: Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services.Patient Education as Topic: The teaching or training of patients concerning their own health needs.Patient Care Team: Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient.Alberta: A province of western Canada, lying between the provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Its capital is Edmonton. It was named in honor of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p26 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p12)Quality Assurance, Health Care: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.Nurse's Role: The expected function of a member of the nursing profession.Job Satisfaction: Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.Physicians, Women: Women licensed to practice medicine.Models, Organizational: Theoretical representations and constructs that describe or explain the structure and hierarchy of relationships and interactions within or between formal organizational entities or informal social groups.Group Practice: Any group of three or more full-time physicians organized in a legally recognized entity for the provision of health care services, sharing space, equipment, personnel and records for both patient care and business management, and who have a predetermined arrangement for the distribution of income.Interprofessional Relations: The reciprocal interaction of two or more professional individuals.Students, Medical: Individuals enrolled in a school of medicine or a formal educational program in medicine.Drug Utilization: The utilization of drugs as reported in individual hospital studies, FDA studies, marketing, or consumption, etc. This includes drug stockpiling, and patient drug profiles.Organizational Innovation: Introduction of changes which are new to the organization and are created by management.Quality Indicators, Health Care: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.Nursing Research: Research carried out by nurses, generally in clinical settings, in the areas of clinical practice, evaluation, nursing education, nursing administration, and methodology.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Preventive Medicine: A medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease (PRIMARY PREVENTION) and the promotion and preservation of health in the individual.Uncompensated Care: Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.Pediatrics: A medical specialty concerned with maintaining health and providing medical care to children from birth to adolescence.Medical Records Systems, Computerized: Computer-based systems for input, storage, display, retrieval, and printing of information contained in a patient's medical record.IsraelForeign Medical Graduates: Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice.Self-Evaluation Programs: Educational programs structured in such a manner that the participating professionals, physicians, or students develop an increased awareness of their performance, usually on the basis of self-evaluation questionnaires.Physician-Nurse Relations: The reciprocal interaction of physicians and nurses.Program Evaluation: Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact.Counseling: The giving of advice and assistance to individuals with educational or personal problems.Personnel Selection: The process of choosing employees for specific types of employment. The concept includes recruitment.Reimbursement, Incentive: A scheme which provides reimbursement for the health services rendered, generally by an institution, and which provides added financial rewards if certain conditions are met. Such a scheme is intended to promote and reward increased efficiency and cost containment, with better care, or at least without adverse effect on the quality of the care rendered.Patient Acceptance of Health Care: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.Interdisciplinary Communication: Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes problems in communication stemming from differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines.Patient-Centered Care: Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)Decision Making: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.Teaching Materials: Instructional materials used in teaching.Partnership Practice: A voluntary contract between two or more doctors who may or may not share responsibility for the care of patients, with proportional sharing of profits and losses.Practice Management: Business management of medical, dental and veterinary practices that may include capital financing, utilization management, and arrangement of capitation agreements with other parties.Computer User Training: Process of teaching a person to interact and communicate with a computer.Mass Screening: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Attitude: An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.Third-Party Consent: Informed consent given by someone other than the patient or research subject.Clinical Clerkship: Undergraduate education programs for second- , third- , and fourth-year students in health sciences in which the students receive clinical training and experience in teaching hospitals or affiliated health centers.Patient Compliance: Voluntary cooperation of the patient in following a prescribed regimen.Patient Care: The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision.Rural Health: The status of health in rural populations.Pharyngitis: Inflammation of the throat (PHARYNX).Outpatient Clinics, Hospital: Organized services in a hospital which provide medical care on an outpatient basis.Ambulatory Care Facilities: Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization.Program Development: The process of formulating, improving, and expanding educational, managerial, or service-oriented work plans (excluding computer program development).Community Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.Preceptorship: Practical experience in medical and health-related services that occurs as part of an educational program wherein the professionally-trained student works outside the academic environment under the supervision of an established professional in the particular field.Patient Participation: Patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health.Teaching: The educational process of instructing.Pilot Projects: Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care): Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.Outcome Assessment (Health Care): Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).Health Fairs: Community health education events focused on prevention of disease and promotion of health through audiovisual exhibits.CaliforniaHouse Calls: Visits to the patient's home by professional personnel for the purpose of diagnosis and/or treatment.Community Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood.Medically Underserved Area: A geographic location which has insufficient health resources (manpower and/or facilities) to meet the medical needs of the resident population.Medical History Taking: Acquiring information from a patient on past medical conditions and treatments.Episode of Care: An interval of care by a health care facility or provider for a specific medical problem or condition. It may be continuous or it may consist of a series of intervals marked by one or more brief separations from care, and can also identify the sequence of care (e.g., emergency, inpatient, outpatient), thus serving as one measure of health care provided.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Peer Review, Health Care: The concurrent or retrospective review by practicing physicians or other health professionals of the quality and efficiency of patient care practices or services ordered or performed by other physicians or other health professionals (From The Facts On File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988).Patients: Individuals participating in the health care system for the purpose of receiving therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive procedures.Academic Medical Centers: Medical complexes consisting of medical school, hospitals, clinics, libraries, administrative facilities, etc.Quebec: A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Documentation: Systematic organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of specialized information, especially of a scientific or technical nature (From ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983). It often involves authenticating or validating information.Osteopathic Medicine: A medical discipline that is based on the philosophy that all body systems are interrelated and dependent upon one another for good health. This philosophy, developed in 1874 by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, recognizes the concept of "wellness" and the importance of treating illness within the context of the whole body. Special attention is placed on the MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM.Communication: The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups.Workload: The total amount of work to be performed by an individual, a department, or other group of workers in a period of time.Chronic Disease: Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Education, Medical, Undergraduate: The period of medical education in a medical school. In the United States it follows the baccalaureate degree and precedes the granting of the M.D.Drug Therapy: The use of DRUGS to treat a DISEASE or its symptoms. One example is the use of ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS to treat CANCER.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Educational Measurement: The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction.Ambulatory Care: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.Costs and Cost Analysis: Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.Attitude to Computers: The attitude and behavior associated with an individual using the computer.Delphi Technique: An iterative questionnaire designed to measure consensus among individual responses. In the classic Delphi approach, there is no interaction between responder and interviewer.Schools, Medical: Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of medicine.Information Systems: Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.Evaluation Studies as Topic: Studies determining the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies. For drugs and devices, CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG EVALUATION; and DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL are available.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Reminder Systems: Systems used to prompt or aid the memory. The systems can be computerized reminders, color coding, telephone calls, or devices such as letters and postcards.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Dentist's Practice Patterns: Patterns of practice in dentistry related to diagnosis and treatment.Geriatrics: The branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Rural Population: The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.Manitoba: A province of Canada, lying between the provinces of Saskatchewan and Ontario. Its capital is Winnipeg. Taking its name from Lake Manitoba, itself named for one of its islands, the name derived from Algonquian Manitou, great spirit. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p724 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p332)Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Benzodiazepines: A group of two-ring heterocyclic compounds consisting of a benzene ring fused to a diazepine ring.Health Services Accessibility: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.North CarolinaGeneral Practice, Dental: Nonspecialized dental practice which is concerned with providing primary and continuing dental care.Attitude to Health: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.Consumer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a benefit or service received.Dizziness: An imprecise term which may refer to a sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness.Preventive Health Services: Services designed for HEALTH PROMOTION and prevention of disease.Reproducibility of Results: The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results.Disease Management: A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept includes implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease. (From Hosp Pharm 1995 Jul;30(7):596)Socioeconomic Factors: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Chi-Square Distribution: A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.Physical Examination: Systematic and thorough inspection of the patient for physical signs of disease or abnormality.Sex Factors: Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Urban Population: The inhabitants of a city or town, including metropolitan areas and suburban areas.Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Practice Management, Dental: The organization and operation of the business aspects of a dental practice.Health Promotion: Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.Diabetes Mellitus: A heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by HYPERGLYCEMIA and GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE.Research Design: A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.New Zealand: A group of islands in the southwest Pacific. Its capital is Wellington. It was discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and circumnavigated by Cook in 1769. Colonized in 1840 by the New Zealand Company, it became a British crown colony in 1840 until 1907 when colonial status was terminated. New Zealand is a partly anglicized form of the original Dutch name Nieuw Zeeland, new sea land, possibly with reference to the Dutch province of Zeeland. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p842 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p378)Nurse's Practice Patterns: Patterns of practice in nursing related to provision of services including diagnosis and treatment.Health Services Needs and Demand: Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.BelgiumRisk Assessment: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)Feasibility Studies: Studies to determine the advantages or disadvantages, practicability, or capability of accomplishing a projected plan, study, or project.Internet: A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.TexasMultivariate Analysis: A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.Managed Care Programs: Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.Australia: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.
Nurses and nursing in primary medical care in England. (1/9663)
In 1974 we sent questionnaires on attachment and employment of nurses to 9214 general practices in England. There were 7863 replies (85%), of which 551 were excluded from the study. A total of 2654 nurses were directly employed by 24% (1774) of the practices, and 68% (4972) had attached nurses. Practices in health centres were larger and had greater nursing resources than those in other premises. We suggest that practices may employ nurses to compensate for ineffective nursing attachments, and we conclude that general-practice-employed nurses are becoming "professionalised". (+info)Randomised controlled trial of effect of feedback on general practitioners' prescribing in Australia. (2/9663)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect on general practitioners' prescribing of feedback on their levels of prescribing. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: General practice in rural Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 2440 full time recognised general practitioners practising in non-urban areas. INTERVENTION: Two sets of graphical displays (6 months apart) of their prescribing rates for 2 years, relative to those of their peers, were posted to participants. Data were provided for five main drug groups and were accompanied by educational newsletters. The control group received no information on their prescribing. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Prescribing rates in the intervention and control groups for the five main drug groups, total prescribing and potential substitute prescribing and ordering before and after the interventions. RESULTS: The intervention and control groups had similar baseline characteristics (age, sex, patient mix, practices). Median prescribing rates for the two groups were almost identical before and after the interventions. Any changes in prescribing observed in the intervention group were also seen in the control group. There was no evidence that feedback reduced the variability in prescribing nor did it differentially affect the very high or very low prescribers. CONCLUSIONS: The form of feedback evaluated here-mailed, unsolicited, centralised, government sponsored, and based on aggregate data-had no impact on the prescribing levels of general practitioners. (+info)Computer use by general practitioners in Scotland. (3/9663)
BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread adoption by general practitioners (GPs) of desktop computers, there has been very little evaluation of the way in which the computer is actually used during consultations and the way in which it affects patient satisfaction. AIM: To ascertain the extent to which the computer is used in the consultation and to investigate the possible relationship between computer use and patient satisfaction. METHOD: Six GPs completed a short questionnaire about the extent to which they use the computer during surgeries. Eighty-four consultations from the surgeries of these GPs were video recorded. Patient satisfaction data on these 84 patients were collected at the time of the surgery using the previously validated Consultation Satisfaction Questionnaire. RESULTS: All six GPs stated that they usually used the computer during consultations. However, video observation revealed that the computer was used in just 51% of surgeries. The proportion of time that the computer was used for varied from 0.03 to 0.4, with a mean value of 0.12. The commonest function for which the computer was used was prescribing. The consultations in which the computer was used (CU) were on average 148 seconds longer than the non-computerized consultations (NCU). There was no difference in patient satisfaction between the two groups. CONCLUSION: Despite this group of GPs having a self-declared interest in the use of computers, the extent to which the computer was used was much lower than expected from the GPs' self-reported use. This may be partly explained by the fact that using the computer takes up valuable time within the consultation and does not appear to contribute to patient satisfaction. If desktop computers are to be used to their full potential in general practice, more work is required to evaluate their impact on the consultation process itself. (+info)Relationship between practice counselling and referral to outpatient psychiatry and clinical psychology. (4/9663)
BACKGROUND: Although reduction in the use of secondary care mental health services is a suggested benefit of counselling in general practice, there has been little empirical investigation of this relationship. AIM: To investigate the relationship between the provision of counselling in general practice and the use of outpatient psychiatry and clinical psychology services across a geographical area. METHOD: Information on referrals to outpatient psychiatry and clinical psychology from all general practices in the London Borough of Islington over one year (October 1993 to September 1994) was collected from the routine information systems of the main hospital departments serving this area. Referral rates per 1000 practice population were compared for practices with and without a practice-based counsellor. RESULTS: Fifteen (35%) of the 43 practices had a counsellor based in the practice. The median referral rate to clinical psychology was higher in practices with a counsellor (4.1 per 1000) than in practices without a counsellor (0.8 per 1000). There was no relationship between the provision of practice counselling and median referral rates to outpatient psychiatry (1.8 per 1000 with a counsellor, 1.7 per 1000 without a counsellor). CONCLUSION: Provision of practice counselling in the study was associated with higher referral rates to clinical psychology and no difference in referral rates to outpatient psychiatry. This is in contrast to the hypothesis that counselling reduces the use of secondary care mental health services. (+info)Why do dyspeptic patients over the age of 50 consult their general practitioner? A qualitative investigation of health beliefs relating to dyspepsia. (5/9663)
BACKGROUND: The prognosis of late-diagnosed gastric cancer is poor, yet less than half of dyspeptic patients consult their general practitioner (GP). AIM: To construct an explanatory model of the decision to consult with dyspepsia in older patients. METHOD: A total of 75 patients over the age of 50 years who had consulted with dyspepsia at one of two inner city general practices were invited to an in-depth interview. The interviews were taped, transcribed, and analysed using the computer software NUD.IST, according to the principles of grounded theory. RESULTS: Altogether, 31 interviews were conducted. The perceived threat of cancer and the need for reassurance were key influences on the decision to consult. Cues such as a change in symptoms were important in prompting a re-evaluation of the likely cause. Personal vulnerability to serious illness was often mentioned in the context of family or friends' experience, but tempered by an individual's life expectations. CONCLUSION: Most patients who had delayed consultation put their symptoms down to 'old age' or 'spicy food'. However, a significant minority were fatalistic, suspecting the worst but fearing medical interventions. (+info)A single-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a simple acupuncture treatment in the cessation of smoking. (6/9663)
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is a major cause of preventable disease and premature death. Physicians should play an active role in the control of smoking by encouraging cessation and helping the smoker to choose the most suitable aid to cessation. AIM: To evaluate a simple, ear acupuncture treatment for the cessation of smoking. METHOD: Randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 78 currently smoking volunteers from the general public. Volunteers attended an acupuncture clinic in a general practice setting and were given a single treatment of electroacupuncture using two needles at either an active or a placebo site plus self-retained ear seeds for two weeks. The major outcome measure was biochemically validated total cessation of smoking at six months. RESULTS: A total of 12.5% of the active treatment group compared with 0% of the placebo group ceased smoking at six months (P = 0.055, 95% confidence interval -0.033 to 0.323). CONCLUSION: This simple ear electroacupuncture treatment was significantly more effective in helping volunteers to quit smoking than placebo treatment. (+info)Out-of-hours service in Denmark: the effect of a structural change. (7/9663)
BACKGROUND: In Denmark, the provision of out-of-hours care by general practitioners (GPs) was reformed at the start of 1992. Rota systems were replaced locally by county-based services. The new out-of-hours service resulted in a considerable reduction in the total number of GPs on call. AIM: To describe how the patients experienced the change from a satisfaction point of view, and how the pattern of patient contact and the fee for GPs changed with the new system. METHOD: The county of Funen was chosen as the geographical area where data were collected. A questionnaire measuring patient satisfaction was posted before the change, immediately after the change, and three years later to a random selection of patients who had been in contact with the out-of-hours service within two weeks before the mailing date. All primary care services for the Danish population are stored in a database (National Health Service Registry). From this continuously updated database, the contact pattern and the fee for GPs were extracted for 1991, 1992, and 1995. RESULTS: The total number of patient contacts was reduced by 16% in the first year, but by only 6% three years later. Three years after the change, there were more than twice as many telephone consultations as before the change, and there were only a third as many home visits. After three years, the GPs' fees were reduced by 20%. There was a significant decrease in patient satisfaction, although the overall level remained high. This decrease was lower three years after the change than immediately after the new system was introduced. CONCLUSION: The new service had a major cost-effectiveness benefit, but there was a price to pay in patient satisfaction. (+info)Health at work in the general practice. (8/9663)
BACKGROUND: Poor mental health and high stress levels have been reported in staff working in general practice. Little is known about how practices are tackling these and other issues of health at work in the absence of an established occupational healthcare service. AIM: To establish the extent of knowledge and good practice of health at work policies for staff working in general practice. METHOD: Practice managers in 450 randomly selected general practices in England were interviewed by telephone, and the general practitioner (GP) with lead responsibility for workplace health in the same practice was surveyed by postal questionnaire. We surveyed the existence and implementation of practice policies, causes and effects of stress on practice staff, and agreement between practice managers and GPs on these issues. RESULTS: Seventy-one per cent of GPs and 76% of practice managers responded, with at least one reply from 408 (91%) practices and responses from both the practice manager and GPs from 252 (56%) practices. Seventy-nine per cent of practices had a policy on monitoring risks and hazards. The proportion of practices with other workplace health policies ranged from 21% (policy to minimize stress) to 91% (policy on staff smoking). There was a tendency for practices to have policies but not to implement them. The three causes of stress for practice staff most commonly cites by both GP and practice manager responders were 'patient demands', 'too much work', and 'patient abuse/aggression'. Sixty-five per cent of GPs felt that stress had caused mistakes in their practices. Although there was general agreement between the two groups, there was a considerable lack of agreement between responders working in the same practices. CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed substantial neglect of workplace health issues with many practices falling foul of health and safety legislation. This report should help general practices identify issues to tackle to improve their workplace health, and the Health at Work in the NHS project to focus on areas where their targeted help will be most worthwhile. (+info)
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Guidelines1
- Follow all legal and ethical guidelines pertaining to the treatment of youth and families, per state and county requirements (e.g. (simplyhired.com)
Evidence1
- All interventions are based in evidence based practices. (simplyhired.com)
Internal Medicine2
- We are looking for a full-time Internal Medicine or Family Medicine physician (MD. (simplyhired.com)
- Experience in Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine or Public Health preferred (Board Certification). (simplyhired.com)
Healthcare1
- Familiar with a variety of healthcare concepts, practices, and procedures. (simplyhired.com)
General Medical Practice1
- Ascot Family Practice is the longest established general medical practice in Ascot since the early 1920s. (brisbane-australia.com)
Medicine practice1
- Eastern Maine Medical Center offers exceptional family medicine practice opportunities in modern facilities with a cutting edge EMR. (simplyhired.com)
Methods1
- Modern office practices, methods, procedures and equipment including computers. (simplyhired.com)
20191
- Contact 2019 Family Practice Notebook , LLC. (tripdatabase.com)
20161
- Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Family Practice for February 2016. (healthday.com)
Internal medicine6
- We are looking for a full-time Internal Medicine or Family Medicine physician (MD. (simplyhired.com)
- Experience in Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine or Public Health preferred (Board Certification). (simplyhired.com)
- A Physician is required to be a board certified, California licensed physician with 5-7 years of professional clinical experience in internal medicine or family. (simplyhired.com)
- Stable group in suburban Phoenix, Arizona has a job opportunity for a Family Practice or Internal Medicine physician. (healthecareers.com)
- An opportunity exists in the Department of Internal Medicine for a full time Physician to join our team to practice in our outpatient clinic located on the campus of Maricopa Medical Center in south central Phoenix AZ. (healthecareers.com)
- Board Certified in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine. (recruiter.com)
Gastroenterology1
- Woodbury Family Practice specializes in Preventive Medicine, Work Related Injuries, Gastroenterology. (chamberofcommerce.com)
Specialty4
- Family practice residents must thus get most of their inpatient experience on other specialty services. (springer.com)
- I also have a sub-specialty in acting as an expert witness in family law legal malpractice cases. (smmirror.com)
- From Business: At Trinity Family Dental, we're passionate about providing comprehensive multi-specialty dental care from start to finish. (yellowpages.com)
- This document presents the specific characteristics of general practice as a specialty and the conditions for its development. (who.int)
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- The practice employs two practice nurses and two health care assistants. (cqc.org.uk)
- The service is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures, treatment of disease, disorder and injury, surgical procedures, family planning and maternity and midwifery services. (cqc.org.uk)
- Primary care practices offer ideal venues for the effective care and management of these conditions. (medworm.com)
- A Primary Health Care manager or lead will contact you to arrange distribution of masks for your practice. (constantcontact.com)
- All of our providers are dedicated to providing medical care that is specifically tailored to your needs and the needs of your family. (inova.org)
- We describe a framework used to address these issues and illustrate its use in improving nurses' skills in retaining participants, reducing closely spaced subsequent pregnancies, responding to intimate partner violence, observing and promoting caregivers' care of their children, addressing parents' mental health problems, classifying families' risks and strengths as a guide for program implementation, and collaborating with indigenous health organizations to adapt and evaluate the program for their populations. (aappublications.org)
- MECHANIC FALLS - Stacey Lagasse, a family nurse practitioner, has joined the care provider staff at Mechanic Falls Family Practice, 22 Pleasant St., Mechanic Falls. (sunjournal.com)
- The generation of relevant knowledge should be supported through (a) developing a culture of reflective practice among clinicians, (b) expanding the infrastructure for practice-based research, (c) developing a multimethod, transdisciplinary, participatory research paradigm, (d) longitudinal study of the process and outcomes of broad, integrative, relationship-centered care, and (e) incorporating pursuit of new knowledge as a central feature of training programs and policy. (nih.gov)
- Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care. (inova.org)
- Unlike other specialties that are limited to a particular organ, disease, age, or sex, family medicine integrates care and patient information for both genders across the full spectrum of ages within the context of the family and community. (inova.org)
- With an emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion, family medicine aims to provide personal, comprehensive, and continuing care of the individual throughout every stage of life. (inova.org)
- The Customer Care Associate applies extensive knowledge of the retail energy industry, company practices, and procedures in answering inbound calls from. (simplyhired.com)
- DentalWorks is one of the nation's largest networks of dental practices delivering great care and providing progressive treatment options at reasonable prices. (prweb.com)
- Eagles Landing provides family medicine and specialized services including imaging and vision, as well as condition management in various areas such as cardiac care, diabetes care and women's health, its website states . (pehub.com)
- and South Carolina network Family Care Partners , backed by Varsity Healthcare Partners . (pehub.com)
- Sarfaty M, Wollitzer AO, Barbaccia JC, et al: Impact of a community-oriented Family Practice Inpatient Service on continuity of care. (springer.com)
- To assist BC Cancer in its mandate to improve cancer care in the province by overseeing the planning, implementation and promotion of activities of the Family Practice Oncology Council's Working Groups and Network. (bccancer.bc.ca)
- Explain that urgent care centers typically offer more services than family practices, but in some respects the two have more in common than urgicare centers and emergency departments. (medpagetoday.com)
- LITTLE FALLS, N.J., May 14 -- Despite their name, urgent care centers have as much in common with family practices as they do with hospital emergency departments, researchers said. (medpagetoday.com)
- Urgent care centers also resemble family practices when it comes to physician reimbursement. (medpagetoday.com)
- Urgent care centers beat family practices on implementing electronic health records. (medpagetoday.com)
- We think urgent care centers may look like primary care practices that are larger than urgent care centers typically are, but we can't say that definitively because we don't have exactly the right questions in the survey to answer that. (medpagetoday.com)
- Still, no matter what's happening in our family, I will not let one day go by when I don't take a time out for self-care . (popsugar.com)
- Family practice doctors provide an array of primary care services to adults, youth and children. (amfs.com)
- When you join Ascension Medical Group (AMG), you are entering a community where physician and advanced practice provider engagement and experience are recognized as key drivers of delivering excellent patient care. (healthecareers.com)
- Ascension St. Vincent's - Waycross, Georgia is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Family Practice physician to support the expansion of our Primary Care network. (healthecareers.com)
- In this episode of the eCW Podcast, Dr. Amar Shah shares how Patient Relationship Management Services from eClinicalWorks transformed his primary care practice. (eclinicalworks.com)
- Prime Care Family Practice is making effective use of Messenger campaigns, which Dr. Amar Shah says has been an effective way to highlight the quality of the work his practice does. (eclinicalworks.com)
- I own my own primary care practice, and we've been using eClinicalWorks since 2012. (eclinicalworks.com)
- Kraynak Family Practice Pc provides Massage Therapies, Examinations, Private Care to it's customers. (chamberofcommerce.com)
- 11 - 13 Neither of these models, however, has penetrated widely into the small- to medium-sized medical practices that provide the great majority of medical care in the United States. (annfammed.org)
- Despite overall better outcomes, families providing kinship care experience many hardships, and the children experience many of the same adversities of children in traditional foster care. (aappublications.org)
- The growing number of children in kinship care arrangements requires pediatricians to be better informed about the unique needs of these children and their families. (aappublications.org)
- Although the laws regarding the nature of kinship care arrangements and the public benefits available for families providing kinship care vary from state to state, they have similarities that can inform pediatricians' practice. (aappublications.org)
- This statement outlines the pathways to kinship care and summarizes existing literature on the unique needs and common challenges of families providing kinship care. (aappublications.org)
- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Recognition Programs assess whether clinicians and practices support the delivery of high-quality care and are built on evidence-based, nationally recognized clinical standards of care. (ghs.org)
- and neither qualify for loan forgiveness, but I was thinking of giving them a try (if hired) and just practice for a couple years (because both sound interesting and fun to me) and THEN look again for an NP job in a primary care clinic in HPSA areas to qualify for loan forgiveness. (allnurses.com)
- I believe that in the short and long run, the better care I take of myself, the more my practice thrives, and the more my family thrives. (socialworker.com)
- This practice participates in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Initiative. (trihealth.com)
- Primary care practices offer a range of services and are able to deal with most minor accident care. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- Minor surgery is commonly provided in primary care practices, providing fast, competent removal and biopsies of skin lesions. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- Each GP surgery or primary care practice will have its own procedure for repeat prescribing but the following rules are common to most, if not all. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- Immunisations are provided at all primary care practices and are one of the most important services they provide. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- Another service offered to you at your GP surgery (primary care practice) is advice and immunisation before you go to another country. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- Includes topics such as enrollment, eligibility requirements, managed care participation, spending and federal matching amounts, and enrollment practices. (kff.org)
- This study by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation documents the attitudes of doctors and the public about medical errors and their or their families' experiences with medical errors in the course of receiving medical care. (kff.org)
- We are a Family Medicine Practice providing medical care for all ages from infants to the elderly, so we can provide care for your whole family. (rochester.edu)
- We look forward to serving you and your family with compassionate, proactive health care. (valleyhealthlink.com)
- We help you maintain a healthy lifestyle through teamwork and patient- and family-centered care. (mainegeneral.org)
- At MaineGeneral, we believe you should have accurate information to help you choose a health care provider or medical practice based on the quality of care you can expect to receive. (mainegeneral.org)
- From routine check-ups and preventative care to diagnosis and treatment for illness, primary care is vital to maintaining peak health for you and your family. (southcoast.org)
- At our Southcoast Health Family Medicine practice in Wareham, MA, we serve the community with comprehensive care focused on every member of your family. (southcoast.org)
- Brian Fitzpatrick, MD , and Mazhar Jakhro, MD , of Southcoast Health in Wareham specialize in family medicine and primary care. (southcoast.org)
- When you are seeking reliable family medicine care in Wareham, MA area, you can find Southcoast Health Family Medicine at 100 Rosebrook Way, off of Rose Brook and southeast of 195. (southcoast.org)
- By family practice doctor do you mean like a primary care physician or pediatrician? (whattoexpect.com)
- for all standard care it's your family doctor? (whattoexpect.com)
- With the simple and efficient care facilities the physician help is preferred by many families. (sooperarticles.com)
- They need the help of their family physician to prescribe them with it so that they can seek treatment and care. (sooperarticles.com)
- A family practice or urgent care physician is needed at a medical facility in Arkansas. (indeed.com)
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- The Family Practice COVID-19 Screening Guide has been updated to include the screening criteria for the community and facility clusters identified by Public Health as having the highest rates of COVID-19. (constantcontact.com)
- UH Now also lets you explore health topics that are important to you and your family. (uhhospitals.org)
- Please review here how Broadlands Family Practice, An Inova Partner, is prioritizing your health while taking cautionary steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (inova.org)
- The move by Sarah Corbally came while the agency is under fire by some families and mental health counselors over complaints that it was not doing enough to protect abused and neglected children. (washingtontimes.com)
- Borrowed and adapted knowledge is insufficient to optimize the potential of a comprehensive, integrative, relationship-centered generalist approach to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities. (nih.gov)
- At Trappe Family Practice, your family's health is our number one concern. (einstein.edu)
- Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes, Utilization and Access to Services by Asset Quintile: New Evidence from the FPS and MCHS ," Discussion Papers DP 2003-14, Philippine Institute for Development Studies. (repec.org)
- As such it is the intent of the Council and Network to ensure that methodologies and the infrastructure created will provide the template and capability to address the wide range of health issues for which a family physician is responsible. (bccancer.bc.ca)
- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Small medical practices may not need to offer their employees health insurance, although there may be advantages to doing so, according to an article published Nov. 10 in Medical Economics . (doctorslounge.com)
- Family Practice and Health News Coverage from hundreds of sources. (wn.com)
- Though they typically offer a wider range of services than a family practice, other aspects of their operations -- such as reimbursement and physician salaries -- more closely resemble family practices, Robin M. Weinick, Ph.D., of the RAND Corporation and formerly of Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues reported online in BMC Health Services Research . (medpagetoday.com)
- Being a Physician - Family Practice prescribes and administers medications, performs routine vaccinations, and provides advice regarding personal health and hygiene. (salary.com)
- In addition to expanding wellness services, these practices will be within the same building and able to consult with cardiologists, cancer experts, women's health doctors and other specialists. (trihealth.com)
- Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Menlo Park, California. (kff.org)
- This new location is an extension of Valley Health Winchester Family Practice , and will have four providers. (valleyhealthlink.com)
- You have access to the latest evidence-based (proven) knowledge and science to help you prevent illness and manage your health, with help from your chosen network of family and friends. (mainegeneral.org)
Oncology1
- Kraynak Family Practice Pc specializes in Herniated Discs, Oncology, Eczema. (chamberofcommerce.com)
Geriatric2
- Caring and able to work with geriatric clients and their family . (indeed.com)
- Acquires and maintains current knowledge and competency in nursing practice and in geriatric . (indeed.com)
Pediatrics1
- The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes the harm racism causes to infants, children, adolescents, and their families. (aappublications.org)
General5
- Quality of routine spirometry tests in Dutch general practices," The British Journal of General Practice , vol. 59, no. 569, pp. e376-e382, 2009. (hindawi.com)
- The following is a Bulletin released March 6, 2017 from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General Ontario is helping families by making it easier for them to navigate family courts and access the legal assistance they need. (avoidaclaim.com)
- A: The biggest complaint clients have in general with respect to lawyers and family law attorneys, is that their calls are not returned. (smmirror.com)
- We are a family centred surgery offering a full range of general practice and accident & medical services to you and your family. (healthpoint.co.nz)
- St. Petersburg Initiative for Education and Training in General Practice and Family Medicine. (who.int)
Professional Practice1
- Read need-to-know updates, commentary, and analysis on Professional Practice issues written by leading professionals. (jdsupra.com)
Medical practice1
- So, if medical practice is to be transformed, it might be helpful to the physician and administrative leaders of that effort to have a relatively simple conceptual framework that shows how these models fit together in relation to other important factors. (annfammed.org)
Specializes1
- ALLEGHANY FAMILY PRACTICE is a medical group practice located in Sparta, NC that specializes in Physician Assistant (PA) and Family Medicine. (healthgrades.com)
Appointments2
- Does this practice offer weekend appointments? (healthgrades.com)
- Family practices that employ clerical staff who live in the identified areas or who also work in a facility cluster will be supplied with additional masks for these staff to wear when patient appointments are being provided in-person. (constantcontact.com)
Board Certified1
- When your case requires medical analysis or testimony in family practice, it's vital to find an expert witness who is a Board Certified and working family doctor in the United States. (amfs.com)
Services7
- Online services can be accessed from the practice website: www.pitshangerfamilypractice.nhs.uk. (cqc.org.uk)
- Does this practice offer virtual visits or other telehealth services? (healthgrades.com)
- AP) - The head of the Division of Child and Family Services will leave the agency in April to return to practicing law as a committee appointed by the governor prepares to make recommendations for changes in agency policy and state law. (washingtontimes.com)
- Provide strengths-based family advocacy with families and individuals who may be homeless, at risk of becoming homeless or in need of other supportive services. (simplyhired.com)
- Most university teaching hospitals now have family practice residency programs, but few have family practice inpatient services. (springer.com)
- Students will investigate how family-oriented services vary in purpose and structure. (edu.au)
- The MDH FHV Program is committed to supporting home visiting programs that provide strength-based services leading to positive, measurable outcomes for infants, toddlers and their families. (mn.us)
Reflective3
- Strategies such as Motivational Interviewing and Reflective Practice are one method to address cross-cultural work. (mn.us)
- Reflective practice supports relationship building. (mn.us)
- Reflective Practice: This document describes the basic elements of reflective practice and how it supports relationship building in home visiting. (mn.us)
Centers1
- We are a part of the Fairfax Family Practice Centers, an Inova Partner, which have many offices throughout Northern Virginia. (inova.org)
Nurse5
- The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a program of nurse home visiting, is grounded in findings from replicated randomized controlled trials. (aappublications.org)
- The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a home visiting program for families beginning in pregnancy and continuing through child age 2 years, focuses on low-income mothers bearing their first children. (aappublications.org)
- Your submission to DNP in Nursing Practice--Family Nurse Practitioner has been sent. (petersons.com)
- Anderson University - DNP in Nursing Practice--Family Nurse Practitioner is an online school located in Anderson, SC. (petersons.com)
- Responsible for maintaining infection control standards and practice and to provide feedback to the registered nurse on problematic or questionable areas in. (indeed.com)
Private Practice6
- Private Practice, Tiffany Smith Counseling, Inc. (athealth.com)
- It was not always easy, but whenever social workers or therapists who are moms, or who want to be moms, ask me how I built a full-time private practice with small children at home, I am quick to say that it really is possible. (socialworker.com)
- A private practice is an arena for creativity, productivity, and a real room of your own. (socialworker.com)
- They reason that they are best off putting off the idea of a private practice until the kids are bigger, or the pregnancies are past. (socialworker.com)
- For moms, alternative private practice venues can be an invigorating way to start off and work with flexibility and synchronicity, in concert with our mothering. (socialworker.com)
- The wheel has been invented on how to start and build a successful private practice. (socialworker.com)
Interventions1
- It may also be helpful to those who are developing or testing interventions and recruiting medical practices for such change efforts. (annfammed.org)
Visits2
- That's slightly lower than the national average of 84.4 visits per family physician per week, the researchers said. (medpagetoday.com)
- Nonetheless, it remains uncertain how often pediatricians inquire about the caregiving arrangements of children during regular visits to their practices. (aappublications.org)
Work10
- Part 1 explores different appoaches to assessment work, outlining policy changes and their implications for working with children and their families. (sagepub.com)
- timely in that it locates assessment within the 'real world' of social work practice and helpful in that establishes the necessity for both intellectual rigor and interpersonal skills in work with children and families. (sagepub.com)
- This program is for therapists who work with clients struggling with marriage and family issues. (athealth.com)
- If you want to work in family practice eventually, take the family practice job. (allnurses.com)
- In practice, that means creating more read-only access, so everyone has a more complete picture of the financial landscape, as well as finding more solutions to help the varied professionals in the room work together. (financial-planning.com)
- Because starting and maintaining a practice means that you have to tend to all the details of owning a business, from marketing and bringing in clients to budgeting on an unpredictable paycheck, to doing the actual work of therapy, many would-be moms put their dream on hold. (socialworker.com)
- It doesn't occur to many would-be therapists that there is a lot of room for new ideas about how to create their own business while raising a family-that there are lots of fun, prudent, exciting ways to proceed that can work well for both family and career. (socialworker.com)
- Social workers are creating inventive, interesting niches for themselves more and more through self employment, independent contracting, Web-based work, teaching, consulting, and writing, as well as the traditional "in-office" practice. (socialworker.com)
- On the home front, it took a lot of coordinating schedules and discussing family goals and priorities, but my husband and I put being on the same page first, and that set the tone for making it work. (socialworker.com)
- At Four Seasons Family Practice in Fairfield, we work with you as a team. (mainegeneral.org)
Physician Jobs2
- The family practice physician jobs are craved by many people. (sooperarticles.com)
- You can find the best Family Practice Physician Jobs with us. (sooperarticles.com)
Experience7
- Finding a highly qualified family practice expert witness is about more than their professional experience alone. (amfs.com)
- We will help you find a family practice expert witness who is actively practicing and has experience with the conditions, treatments or procedures in your case. (amfs.com)
- An entry level family practice physician (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $135,137. (salaryexpert.com)
- On the other end, a senior level family practice physician (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $259,675. (salaryexpert.com)
- First are the lessons from my experience during the past 35 years in both practice redesign efforts and many research trials or studies of quality improvement efforts. (annfammed.org)
- If you want family practice experience, then take the family practice job. (allnurses.com)
- Physician - Family Practice 's years of experience requirement may be unspecified. (salary.com)
Responsibilities4
- This position also includes a small house call practice on the samecampus which will be part of this physician's responsibilities. (simplyhired.com)
- Additional responsibilities include providing family support, which is the first level of crisis intervention for families and/or non-offending caregivers. (simplyhired.com)
- Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and elders taught children what it was to be a member of a family, what it was to be a member of a community, what your responsibilities were to your neighbors," recalled Judge Thorne. (americanbar.org)
- See user submitted job responsibilities for Physician - Family Practice. (salary.com)
Appointment3
- Find your provider and book an appointment at the Trappe Family Practice. (einstein.edu)
- For more information on Dr. Carol L. Thorpe and her dentistry practice or to make an appointment, call the office at 604-552-9500, check the website at www.drcarolthorpe.ca , email [email protected] , or visit the office located at #121, 3030 Lincoln Avenue, Coquitlam. (timescolonist.com)
- We are thrilled to offer additional appointment times as well as another convenient location for you and your family. (valleyhealthlink.com)
Strengths1
- on building family-friendly, family-supportive community structures that harness family strengths. (edu.au)
Roles1
- Utah Court of Appeals Judge William Thorne, speaking at the Third National Parent Attorneys Conference in Washington, DC, July 11, 2013, stressed the important roles of parent attorneys when Native American families' ties are at risk. (americanbar.org)
Nation's1
Transformation2
- Changes in national and international economies, the end of political regimes, migration, but also micro-events such as retirement, the birth of a child, varying school times and seasons, or innovations in industrial design, these are all potential factors that may generate a transformation of family eating habits. (peterlang.com)
- And since then we've had an evolution or transformation of our practice for the last five years. (eclinicalworks.com)
Find1
- In this book the reader will find scholars who analyse how families and households experiment, circumvent and appropriate technical, political, and social modifications in their family food situations, and how they create freedom and innovation under constraint. (peterlang.com)
Years9
- The family scoffs at the notion that he didn't harm anyone other than MJ during his 20 years of practice. (tmz.com)
- I've been practicing for 10 years. (eclinicalworks.com)
- A: I have been practicing law for more than 50 years. (smmirror.com)
- Founded by Dr. David Silkiner in 1986, our practice is proud to have served the Simpsonville and surrounding communities for over 25 years. (ghs.org)
- She is also a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas, where she has worked with adolescents and families for the past nineteen years in a variety of settings. (athealth.com)
- Judge Thorne described a period 150 years ago when Indian children were stripped from their families and tribes and placed in government-run schools in an effort to "civilize" them. (americanbar.org)
- Flash back to 50 years ago: government-run schools were still open, still stripping Indian children of their family and tribal connections. (americanbar.org)
- Having a practice of one's own, for those who dream of it, is more than a good job, more than a career move, or the fulfillment of years of schooling. (socialworker.com)
- I often found it difficult in the early years of my practice to write out the checks to my "team" of clinical and business consultants, but it was, and still is, money well spent. (socialworker.com)
Strategies1
- Strategies are also outlined for community, state, and federal advocacy on behalf of these children and their families. (aappublications.org)
Office8
- Modern office practices, methods, procedures and equipment including computers. (simplyhired.com)
- FMC's Copperas Cove office, 1 Family Practice Physician, 3 mid-levels. (simplyhired.com)
- Of the three choices you listed as possibilities, I personally would lean towards the FP practice office. (allnurses.com)
- Don't look now, but family office client consultation is moving downmarket. (financial-planning.com)
- While changes in consumer technology have indirectly influenced client expectations, tech disruption has directly contributed to the downmarket push of family office consultation as well. (financial-planning.com)
- When more clients can enjoy family office style consultations, it keeps the momentum going. (financial-planning.com)
- Of course, the spread of family office consultation has implications for tech providers. (financial-planning.com)
- In the end, whether or not your practice embraces family office consultation, your clients want you to be as coordinated and digital-ready as every other aspect of their interaction with the modern world. (financial-planning.com)
Approaches1
- Topics include practice issues, approaches to family therapy, including cognitive behavioral models, strategic family therapy, and solution-focused brief therapy, supervision, and ethical issues in marriage and family therapy. (athealth.com)