Sugar-coaters and Straight Talkers: Communicating About Developmental Delays in Primary Care

Reducing Waiting and Delays in Primary Care

TWO CARDINAL GOALS OF PRIMARY care are accessibility and continuity of care. Many primary care practices are struggling to achieve these goals, engulfed by seemingly overwhelming demand for patient visits and chaotic procedures for triaging patients into crammed office schedules. Too often, patients are unable to see their own primary care physician in a timely fashion, resulting in delays in c...

Communicating with Patients in Heart Care Department

به نظر می رسد نسبت به ۳۰ سال گذشته، هم اکنون پرستاران تمایل بیشتری به افشاء پیش آگهی نهایی بیماران محتضر دارند. نواک و همکاران (۱۹۷۹) الگوهای ارتباطی در حال تغییر پزشکان در رابطه با بیماران محتضر را که بوسیله سه مطالعه امریکایی گزارش شده بود مورد بررسی مجدد قرار دادند. تعداد پزشکان که حاضر به افشاء وضعیت بیمار محتضر نبودند از ۲ تا ۸۸ متغیر بود. در مطالعه ای که بوسیله مکینتاش در دهه ۱۹۷۰ در انگل...

Advance Care Planning: Communicating About Matters of Life and Death,

How do primary care physicians identify young children with developmental delays? A national survey.

Little is known about the current practices of primary care physicians regarding developmental surveillance and screening during pediatric preventive care visits. We conducted a mailed survey of a random national sample of pediatricians and family physicians to describe their practices and identify factors that predict use of developmental screening tools, an efficacious way of identifying chil...

Communicating about screening.

People are offered a wide range of screening tests by diverse providers. For example: maternal and child health services screen for genetic conditions and developmental problems; general practitioners screen for cardiovascular risk factors; NHS programmes screen for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer; and commercial providers offer various health assessments, including body and gene scans. Prov...