Despite continued growth of the primary care workforce, profound maldistribution persists among providers available for the care of children. Family physicians (FPs) spend, on average, approximately 10% of their total practice time caring for children; however, given that, among physician specialties, FPs are geographically distributed most evenly across the US population, the self-reported dec...

Governments in ontario have promised family physicians (fps) that participation in primary care reform would be financially as well as professionally rewarding. We compared work satisfaction, incomes and work patterns of fps practising in different models to determine whether the predicted benefits to physicians really materialized. study participants included 332 fps in ontario practising in f...

OBJECTIVE To identify differences and gaps in recommendations to patients for the management of sport-related concussion among FPs, emergency department physicians (EDPs), and pediatricians. DESIGN A self-administered, multiple-choice survey was e-mailed to FPs, EDPs, and pediatricians. The survey had been assessed for content validity. SETTING Two community teaching hospitals in the greate...

OBJECTIVE To determine provincial trends in provision of intrapartum care by general practitioners and family physicians (GP/FPs) for the 11 years from 1984 to 1995. DESIGN Analyses of provincial Medical Care Fee-for-Service Utilization data for births from 1984-1985 to 1994-1995. SETTING 10 provinces of Canada. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion of vaginal births billed by GP/FPs (expresse...

BACKGROUND Dementia is often not formally diagnosed in primary care. To what extent this is due to family physicians' (FPs) watchful waiting, reluctance to diagnose or to their unawareness of the presence of cognitive impairment is unclear. The objective of this study was to assess FPs' awareness of cognitive impairment by comparing their evaluation of the absence or presence of cognitive impai...

BACKGROUND Patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) form a heterogeneous group and frequently attend their family physician (FP). Little is known about how FPs recognize MUPS in their patients. We conducted a focus group study to explore how FPs recognize MUPS and whether they recognize specific subgroups of patients with MUPS. Targeting such subgroups might improve treatmen...

A nonlinear system may be characterized by an orthogonal functional power series (FPS) computed from cross correlations between input and output variables. \Is the response changing over the course of the experiment?" is a fundamental question encountered in the analysis of both FPS and evoked potentials (EP's). Regression on closed-form functions of time produces a time-varying FPS or EP. Eval...

We motivate the use of Problem-Solving Methods (PSM) in order to realize reusable knowledge models. The notion of PSM is extended to Frameworks of Problem Solving (FPS), thus giving PSM a larger generality and enable specialization or update of PSM during system development. An example of a FPS in the context of a project dealing with model-based diagnosis illustrates the approach. Finally, we ...