Posttransplantation care: Role of the primary care physician versus transplant center

The role of the primary care physician.

Increased emphasis on community-based care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS is recommended by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Patients prefer to be treated within their community, and primary care reduces the demand on scarce, costly, and already overloaded hospital facilities. Thus, there is an increasingly large role for primary care physicians to play in t...

Primary care practice coordination versus physician continuity.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study assesses the influence of primary care continuity--both clinician and system--on patient outcomes. We consider the presumed benefits of physician continuity and practice coordination within a multi-specialty group. METHODS The practices of 194 family physicians and general internists caring for 320000 adult members of a health maintenance organization were...

Second Primary Cancer Screening: Role of the Primary Care Physician

Role of the primary care physician in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Approximately 8,200 new cases of Hodgkin lymphoma are diagnosed annually in the United States. Common presenting features include painless lymphadenopathy (usually above the diaphragm), cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. To decrease late complications, treatment has gradually evolved toward shorter-duration chemotherapy with use of lower-dose, shorter-duration radiation therapy. ABVD ...

The evolving primary care physician.

n engl j med 366;20 nejm.org may 17, 2012 1849 more widely available and reducing the national price tag, it’s hard to say how primary care physicians will fit into the delivery models that emerge. Will they be increasingly replaced by nurse practitioners and physician assistants? Will they become partners or leaders on multidisciplinary teams, spending more time supervising others and less int...