National Survey Integrated Primary Care

A National Survey of Primary Care Physicians

BACKGROUND: Based on a series of clinical trials showing no difference in the effectiveness or tolerability of most major classes of antihypertensive medications, the Joint National Commission on High Blood Pressure Treatment recommends that physicians prescribe β -blockers or diuretics as initial hypertensive therapy unless there are compelling indications for another type of medication. Never...

Describing primary care encounters: the Primary Care Network Survey and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe clinical encounters in primary care research networks and compare them with those of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). METHODS Twenty US primary care research networks collected data on clinicians and patient encounters using the Primary Care Network Survey (PRINS) Clinician Interview (PRINS-1) and Patient Record (PRINS-2), ...

Prescription drug abuse: a national survey of primary care physicians.

Sex and racial disparities in cardiovascular risk continue to exist, and the risk factors fueling these disparities will require redress. The enormous progress in reducing cardiovascular diseasemortality realized since the 1960s representpublic health and health care improvement successes, yet more progress in reducing the remaining colossal burdenof cardiovascular disease in the United States ...

Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care: a survey of care homes in England

BACKGROUND Older people living in care homes in England have complex health needs due to a range of medical conditions, mental health needs and frailty. Despite an increasing policy expectation that professionals should operate in an integrated way across organisational boundaries, there is a lack of understanding between care homes and the National Health Service (NHS) about how the two sector...

Drug utilization in office visits to primary care physicians: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1980.