CONTEXT Little is known about the types and outcomes of testing process errors that occur in primary care. OBJECTIVE To describe types, predictors and outcomes of testing errors reported by family physicians and office staff. DESIGN Events were reported anonymously. Each office completed a survey describing their testing processes prior to event reporting. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 243 cli...

SunAmerica is a major financial services company that primarily sells fixed and variable annuity products. Its assets (owned or under management) currently total approximately 11 billion dollars. SunAmerica was confronted with the industrywide problem that all agents, broker-dealers, and corporations must be appointed to the State Board of Insurance in each state for each product line to be sol...

INTRODUCTION Patient and practice perspectives can inform development of team-based approaches to improving blood pressure control in primary care. We used a community-based participatory research approach to assess patient and practice perceptions regarding the value of team-based strategies for controlling blood pressure in a rural North Carolina population from 2010 through 2012. METHODS I...

BACKGROUND The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Clinician and Group adult survey (CG-CAHPS) includes 34 items used to monitor the quality of ambulatory care from the patient's perspective. CG-CAHPS includes items assessing access to care, provider communication, and courtesy and respect of office staff. Stakeholders have expressed concerns about the length of the ...

To the Editor: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) is in the process of changing our approach to diagnosing and treating hypertension.1 This study was stopped early because of a clear benefit in terms of reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in higherrisk, older patients randomized to a target systolic blood pressure (BP) <120 mm Hg compared with the usual target of...

health and wellbeing has always been an important concept of relevance for concerned health specialists and workers. the present study envisages to look at the nature of occupational stressors and mental health problems in a group of hospital employees at the zahedan university of medical sciences. the study was carried out on 130 employees chosen from various hospitals in zahedan. results reve...