Emergency room practice among family physicians

Scheduling emergency room physicians.

This paper introduces the problem of scheduling emergency room physicians. We interviewed physicians from six hospitals in the greater Montreal, Canada area, in order to understand the emergency room scheduling problem. Extracting the real scheduling problem is difficult because physician working conditions are based on informal mutual cooperation which is usually not documented. We present the...

Collaborative practice among obstetricians, family physicians and midwives.

Clinical Decision Making by Emergency Room Physicians and Residents

IntroductIon Clinical decision-making is a complex process that is reliant on accurate and timely information. Clinicians are dependent (or should be dependent) on massive amounts of information and knowledge to make decisions that are in the best interest of the patient. Increasingly, information technology (IT) solutions are being used as a knowledge transfer mechanism to ensure that clinicia...

Rural Idaho family physicians' scope of practice.

CONTEXT Scope of practice is an important factor in both training and recruiting rural family physicians. PURPOSE To assess rural Idaho family physicians' scope of practice and to examine variations in scope of practice across variables such as gender, age and employment status. METHODS A survey instrument was developed based on a literature review and was validated by physician educators, ...

Family physicians and current inpatient practice.

BACKGROUND Increasing demand for primary care physicians has led some to recommend that family physicians focus on ambulatory care, leaving inpatient care to hospital-based physicians only. This study examines the current level of family physician involvement in the care of hospitalized patients and the factors which determine that involvement. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to a random sam...