Primary care and non-primary care physicians

Perspectives for primary care physicians

OBJECTIVE To review the need for primary care physicians to screen for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). QUALITY OF EVIDENCE Literature was reviewed via MEDLINE from 1993 to 2000, inclusive, using the search term “sleep apnea” combined with “epidemiology,” “outcome,” and “diagnosis and treatment.” Citations in this review favour more recent, well controlled and randomized studies, bu...

Primary care physicians and urologists--partners in "shared care".

Patients' Assessment of Community Primary and Non-primary Care Physicians in Seoul City of South Korea

BACKGROUND It is important to know the current level of primary care performance in order to evaluate and plan for desirable health policy. We tried to compare patient's assessment of primary (family physician, general practitioner, internist, pediatrician, and general surgeon) and non-primary (the other specialties) care physicians. METHODS Study subjects were physicians of primary care clin...

Pediatric Orthopedics for Primary Care Physicians

This revised and extended new edition retains the features that made the first edition such a popular text for pediatricians and primary care physicians: orthopedic disorders are arranged according to age of onset and also according to their frequency of occurrence, and this is supplemented with helpful guidelines for orthopedic referral. Distilling a vast wealth of the author's experience in t...

Guideline Summary for Primary Care Physicians

summarized here to provide a compact source of information for the primary care physician. More detailed discussion can be found in the main guideline document. Tables 2, 11A and 11B in Section 3 of the main guideline document list all the acute treatment strategies, and the medications used in each one. Table 9 in Section 3 summarizes medications dosages and side effects. Recommendations relat...