Gender inequalities in COPD decision-making in primary care

COPD in Primary Care

‘COPD in Primary Care’ is a compilation of essential knowledge on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a health condition and its treatment within the primary care setting in the UK. COPD is a chronic condition that causes progressive obstruction of the airflows increasing continuously shortness of breath and is, by definition, irreversible. Anita Sharma, an enthusiastic, practicing general...

Primary care and emergency department decision making.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of primary care status on decision making in the pediatric emergency department (ED). SETTING Urban tertiary care children's hospital. DESIGN Examining physicians prospectively completed questionnaires describing the presence of and their familiarity with patients' primary care providers (PCPs), as well as several relevant clinical factors. PATIENTS We pr...

MarketWatch Discretionary Decision Making By Primary Care

Efforts to improve the quality and costs of U.S. health care have focused largely on fostering physician adherence to evidence-based guidelines, ignoring the role of clinical judgment in more discretionary settings. We surveyed primary care physicians to assess variability in discretionary decision making and evaluate its relationship to the cost of health care. Physicians in high-spending regi...

Defining diagnosis: screening and decision making in primary care.

Health inequalities in primary care.