Regarding Physician Advocacy

Physician advocacy essential for Canada's First Nations.

Physician advocacy and the 2010 Health Care Reform Act.

Dramatic changes are being proposed in health care delivery in the United States and the main driver is reducing costs. The 2009 estimates suggest that the United States spent 2.6 trillion dollars (17.3% of GDP) on health care. The average for spending in the rest of the world was around 9% GDP. While the numbers can be debated, everyone understands that the rising cost of health care cannot be...

Patient–physician communication regarding electronic cigarettes

INTRODUCTION Smokers are likely asking their physicians about the safety of e-cigarettes and their potential role as a cessation tool; however, the research literature on this communication is scant. A pilot study of physicians in the United States was conducted to investigate physician-patient communication regarding e-cigarettes. METHODS A total of 158 physicians were recruited from a direc...

Physician attitudes regarding school-located vaccinations.

OBJECTIVE To assess physician attitudes regarding school-located adolescent vaccination and influenza vaccination. METHODS From July through September 2010, a 20-item survey was mailed to 1337 practicing Colorado family physicians and pediatricians. Standard statistical methods were used to examine unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios of factors associated with physician support for school-loc...

Recommendations Regarding Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals

In general, we agree that improving the accuracy of IPPS payment rates would be desirable. While the emergence of specialty hospitals makes pointed the need for such improvement, we believe such changes should be desirable in any case. Consequently, we are already proceeding to analyze the options MedPAC has discussed. We expect to fully analyze and simulate the changes so we can explore the im...