Weight maintenance: challenges, tools and strategies for primary care physicians

Weight maintenance: challenges, tools and strategies for primary care physicians[Link]

Obesity is recognized as a chronic disease and one of the major healthcare challenges facing us today. Weight loss can be achieved via lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical interventions, but weight maintenance remains a lifetime challenge for individuals with obesity. Guidelines for the management of obesity have highlighted the role of primary care providers (PCPs). This review examines the...

Improving Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice

America’s embattled primary care system is nearing the breaking point. Primary care clinicians are expected to provide continuity of care for patients within an increasingly fractionated medical environment. They face ever-expanding hours with no corresponding rise in reimbursement rates, leading to high levels of job-related dissatisfaction. And while much of the work of primary care involves ...

Primary care physicians and musculoskeletal disorders--the challenges increase.

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...

developmental delay: nneed of screening tools for primary care providers

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