Statistical Analysis For each outcome, we fit the following linear regression model: where i indexes the completed referral with specialist j for a patient of PCP k in year t. The specialist and PCP fixed effects (the β2 and β3 terms) control for the average patient rating of specialist ...
A and B, Distributions of annual rates of low-value services (predicted modes) adjusted for beneficiary sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, local area economic and educational characteristics, year, and hospital referral region, as well as health care provider organization (B only). These gr...
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end, caring for your wallet is a significant form of mental health self-care. Financial stress reduction should include ways to save money. If you own your own home, consider refinancing, which frees up some monthly cash. Make sure your living space is clean, ...
Second, payment made under the redemption offer would unlikely result in unfair competition because the physician partners would agree not to refer patients to the partnership’s affiliated facilities under the no-referral certificate. Even though there would be a six-month period d...
To improve referral to appropriate adjunct conservative care at the right time in the patient’s recovery process, we need to address barriers regarding long wait times or complete lack of access to these services. A number of other barriers were identified in this review. Due to insufficient ...
symptoms. thus, this study may have a selection bias towards individuals with more severe symptoms. furthermore, the high prevalence of esophagitis among patients who underwent an endoscopy in the current study could reflect a referral bias. adherence was self-reported and so may be underestimated ...
We hypothesize that SID, operating in the form of mutual cross-specialty referral, will cause earnings to increase with total physician density (all specialties taken together), but simultaneously, decrease with increasing competition within specialties. We used multiple regression analyses controlling for...
Regardless of referral source, typical questions for fitness for duty evaluations include whether the physician: 1. exhibits signs or symptoms of a physical or mental disorder that render him or her unable to perform the essential duties of his or her occupation in a safe and consistent manner,...
The controlled, integrated mobile digital communications management system may be used for any medically-related communication purpose such as, but not limited to, the referral of a patient from one physician/provider to another physician/provider, the scheduling of procedures, and communications between...