نتایج جستجو برای: primary organizations
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BACKGROUND We conducted a randomized clinical trial of interventions to achieve physician consensus, practice changes, and patient activation designed to help primary care group practices enhance the delivery of cancer prevention and screening services. METHODS In each of 42 primary care practices in 1991 to 1994, we studied approximately 60 patients per physician who were between the ages 53...
Primary care services provide continuing and coordinating care, cater to most health care needs, and serve as a point of first contact with the health system. This article addresses the issue of government ownership of primary care. Ownership confers governance responsibility (ultimate control) for an organization, and accountability for its actions. Primary care organizations can be classed as...
Strengthening health systems in poor countries: a code of conduct for nongovernmental organizations.
The challenges facing efforts in Africa to increase access to antiretroviral HIV treatment underscore the urgent need to strengthen national health systems across the continent. However, donor aid to developing countries continues to be disproportionately channeled to international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rather than to ministries of health. The rapid proliferation of NGOs has prov...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, health care providers take responsibility for a defined patient population, coordinate their care across settings, and are held jointly accountable for the quality and cost of care. This issue brief reports on results from a survey that assesses hospitals' readiness to participate in ACOs. Results sho...
BACKGROUND Over the past decade there has been a sharp increase in the number of non-profit-sharing salaried doctors employed by practices. This has been accompanied by the introduction of mechanisms to facilitate the entry of other providers into the primary care market. AIM To explore the views of GP principals and salaried doctors on current working practices and the future direction of pr...
OBJECTIVE To determine the health care resources and perceived barriers to care of families attending free vaccine fairs. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Twelve free vaccine fairs in Denver, Colorado, in 1994. PARTICIPANTS A total of 533 consecutive parents or guardians of children receiving vaccine at the fairs. Interventions. None. MEASUREMENTS/RESULTS Survey respondents repo...
Existing scales to measure trust in physicians have differing content and limited testing. To improve on these measures, a detailed conceptual model was constructed and a large item pool (n = 78) was generated following a detailed conceptual model and expert review. After pilot testing, the best-performing items were validated with a random national sample (n = 959) and a regional sample of HMO...
In a large Denver HMO, a retrospective study of asthma management was reviewed. Seventy moderate to severe asthmatic patients' charts were reviewed through April 1994. All patients admitted to the study had to be followed for at least 1 year by a primary care physician before the allergy evaluation (AE) and for at least one year of followup (F/U) after the AE. All patients had at least two acut...
This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the pharmaceutical industry and among private providers on health care in an Indian city. In-depth interviewing and clinical observation were used over a period of 18 months. Private practitioners and chemists who provided regular services to inhabitants of a poor neighborhood in central Bhubaneswar were included. Fierce competiti...
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