Shared Appointments

Shared medical appointments: increasing patient access without increasing physician hours.

Shared medical visits are a new concept in patient care. Doctors perform a series of one-on-one patient encounters in a group setting during a 90-minute visit and manage and advise each patient in front of the others. Patients benefit from improved access to their physician and significantly increased education, while providers can boost their access and productivity without increasing hours. S...

Shared Medical and Virtual Surgical Appointments in Oral Surgery

Access to care and patient satisfaction are primary objectives in most, if not all, surgical practices. With current healthcare reform and implementation of The Affordable Care Act of 2010, surgeons are more frequently being challenged by their administrative counterparts to improve clinical efficiency and quality of care while maintaining current profit margins. This chapter describes two non-...

Shared medical appointments: promoting weight loss in a clinical setting.

INTRODUCTION Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are 90-minute group appointments for patients with similar medical complaints. SMAs include components of a traditional office visit but provide further emphasis on health education. The effectiveness of SMAs on weight-loss in an outpatient setting has not been studied. METHODS Weight-loss SMAs were offered by one physician at the Palo Alto Medi...

Shared Medical Appointments for Chronic Medical Conditions: A Systematic Review

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Bidie, Deputy Surgeon-General (Madras), to act as SurgeonGeneral with Madras Government, vice S. G. Furnell. Koberts, Deputy Surgeon-General, now returning from Suakim, succeeds Dr. Bidie as Sanitary Commissioner. Crombie, Surgeon-Major A., Civil Surgeon of Dacca, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Cleghorn as Superintendent of the General Hospital, Calcutta. O'Brien, Surgeon-Major J., Civil Sur...